The answer is “Othello game”.

This is a kind of a board game for two players.

The idea is that a person who has more pieces at the end of the game is a winner.

They use a board and plate-shaped pieces.

One side of the piece is dark and the other side is light.

One player uses light ones and the other uses dark ones.

They put their own pieces on the board alternately.

If your opponent’s piece is between your pieces, you can turn it over and it becomes your pieces.

The game was invented by Goro Hasegawa who is from Ibaraki in Japan.

And it was named by a scholar of English, Shiro Hasegawa who is Goro’s father.

This name is taken from a Shakespeare’s story, “Othello”.

“Othello” is a kind of love and hatred story.

The story is composed two characters mainly, a white woman and a black man.

Shiro thought Othello game’s fast changing looks like the story’s fast discovery.

So he named it “Othello game”.

Recently, “Othello game” is popular to all over the world.

World championship of “Othello game” was held in Mito in Ibaraki last year.

So many people visited there to enter for the game even from overseas.

“Othello game” is loved by men and women of all ages and all countries.