Susan Manual And Tips

File	susan-manual-and-tips.hqx
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Category	Board Game
Year	1994

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The SUSAN Manual is a plain-text companion to Stephen Linhart's board game SUSAN, a quick and subtle two-player strategy game. Compiled in 1994 by Tao Rodriguez-Seeger as freeware, it bundles an introduction to SUSAN with basic and intermediate strategy tips, including ASCII diagrams designed to travel freely across the network.What SUSAN IsSUSAN is a two-player abstract board game invented by Stephen Linhart in 1991. The Macintosh version pairs the rules with a computer opponent that, in Linhart's words, learns by playing - a simulated neural-network engine that improves the more games you play against it. The manual exists to teach humans the same lessons.What's In The ManualThe document is a StuffIt Lite archive (SUSAN Manual.sit) containing the manual as plain ASCII so it renders in any text editor on any platform. It opens with a primer on the rules, then progresses into opening principles, mid-game shape, and a set of intermediate tactical patterns illustrated with character-grid diagrams.Author And LicenseThe tips manual was assembled by Tao Rodriguez-Seeger (trodrigu@kirk.ecs.umass.edu) and is Copyright 1994 Stephen Linhart, distributed as freeware. The note that ships with the file explicitly invites readers to pass it along to friends.How To Use ItTreat it as a paired download with the SUSAN game itself - install the game, then keep the manual open in a fixed-width text window while you play. The diagrams assume a monospaced font so columns of stones line up correctly on the board grid.