Havannah Tutor 1.1

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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 teachesHavannah 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 worksThe 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 originsThe 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 mattersFew 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.