Overview |
Havannah is a two-player abstract game played with black and white stones on a hexagonal board, invented by Christian Freeling in 1976. It belongs to the connection family of games such as Hex , Y , Atoll and Gonnect . In 2002 Christian awarded a prize of €1000 for a program that would beat him once in a ten game match, before the summer of 2012. |
Board |
Havannah is played on a hexagonal board with 8 or 10 cells per side. |
Objective | |||
The objective of the game is to be the first to create a ring, or a bridge or a fork:
Draws are possible in Havannah, but they are extremely rare. |
Play |
The game starts on an empty board. Each player has stones of his allocated color: white or black. Players take turns putting one stone on a vacant cell. White begins. Since the first player has a distinct advantage, the pie rule is sometimes used to make the game fair, in particular 'base-8'. This rule allows the second player to switch colors as his first move. |
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