Havannah Tutor
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Havannah Tutor is an interactive introduction to Havannah, the abstract connection game invented by Christian Freeling. Packaged as a self-contained tutorial of HTML pages and Java applets, it teaches the rules, walks through tactics and strategy, and presents annotated problems and recorded games for study.
The game it teaches
Havannah is a two-player connection game played on a hexagonal board, in which a player wins by forming a ring, a bridge between two corners, or a fork connecting three sides. Freeling designed it as a deeper sibling to Hex, with a wider tactical surface.
How the tutor works
The package opens in a Java-enabled web browser such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Internet Explorer 3.0. Chapters cover the rules first, then strategy and tactics, and finally a series of problems with worked solutions and commented sample games.
Author and origins
The tutorial was written by Ed van Zon and distributed through the Info-Mac archive as freeware. It runs locally without an internet connection, which made it well suited to dial-up era Mac users wanting to study the game offline.
Why it matters
Few abstract strategy games of the 1990s shipped with a structured, self-paced trainer of this kind. Havannah Tutor remains a useful primer for anyone first encountering Freeling's design.
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