Hexdame Tutor

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Category	Board Game

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Hexdame Tutor is a classic Mac implementation of Hexdame, a hexagonal-board variant of international draughts devised by Christian Freeling. The program presents the rules of the hex-grid game interactively on the Macintosh, oriented toward players learning the variant rather than competitive engine play.The game it teachesHexdame transposes the moves and captures of standard draughts onto a hexagonal grid, where each cell has six neighbors instead of four. The result is a draughts-family game with a noticeably different geometry of advance and capture.Tutorial focusAs a tutor, the Mac program is framed around walking a learner through legal moves, captures, and promotions on the hex board, rather than serving primarily as a strong opponent.OriginHexdame is one of several abstract strategy games designed by Dutch inventor Christian Freeling. Small Macintosh tutors for his games circulated during the classic Mac era as a way to introduce the rules in playable form.