Favorite Historical Game

While not as old as examples mentioned in the text, the board game "reversi" has been around at least 100 years. It's hard to say why I love the game; it may be because of how well I understand the strategy. I'm not a great player by any means, but I understand it at a level that I don't often reach in other board games like chess, checkers, etc. Knowing how reversi works, as opposed to being pretty clueless when playing chess, makes reversi more interesting for me than other board games.