Goro Hasegawa, Creator of Othello Board Game, Dies at 83
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/world/asia/goro-hasegawa-creator-of-othello-board-game-dies-at-83.html
同じ文章があちこちにあるような気がするのですが、これは上部にNew York Timesと表示されています。
Goro Hasegawa, who is widely credited with creating the board game Othello, which has sold tens of million of copies around the world since its introduction in the 1970s, died on June 20 in Japan. He was 83.
うんうん、1970年代にオセロを考案して・・・という感じかな。
Othello is similar in some ways to Go, an ancient game of Asian origin that involves placing black and white stones on a large board to surround an opponents’ stones. It is also quite similar to Reversi, a British game that enjoyed a spurt of popularity in the 1890s.
碁（囲碁）と似てるとか、リバーシと似てるとか・・・
Whether Mr. Hasegawa knew about Reversi when he thought up his game is unclear.
外人容赦ないな。それはもういいよ・・・。
Most accounts say that he was an avid Go player, and that he first tried a version of Othello with milk-bottle tops in his hometown, Mito, in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
でもちゃんと水戸って書くのね。
Fans have included Walter Cronkite, Barry Manilow and Pope John Paul II.
ヨハネ・パウロⅡ2世もオセロファン！ローマでの大会のときに法王様にオセロを贈ったのでした。
（「オセロの打ち方」より）
これ、昔のデラックスオセロですね。これの新品欲しい。