Shoutbox

I don't know Java but you could do:

code:

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var Alph = " ABCDEFGH";
for(var i;i=0;i<Alph.length){
    othellier[0][i] = Alph.charAt(i);
    othellier[9][i] = Alph.charAt(i);
}

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etc.

Edit: removed smileys from post which would appear in the code sample