OLIVAW: Mastering Othello with neither Humans nor a Penny

We introduce OLIVAW, an AI Othello player adopting the design principles of the famous AlphaGo series. The main motivation behind OLIVAW was to attain exceptional competence in a non-trivial board game, but at a tiny fraction of the cost of its illustrious predecessors. In this paper we show how OLIVAW successfully met this challenge.