Strategy

General advice

• One important advice for novice players to remember: "In Hex, the best attacking move is often to defend." Instead of trying to connect your sides, do your best to impede your opponent.
• If you play with a strong player and you lose, try to repeat the opponent's moves and observe the responses. This can be a fast way to learn new bit of strategy.
• Another good way to learn strategy is to analyse games — preferably in your head and not with a program. Talking to senior players is also a good idea.

General strategy guide

These three pages originate from Glenn C. Rhoads' excellent strategy guide. They have mostly been changed to accomodate the transfer to the Wiki format.

• Basic
• Intermediate
• Advanced

Jonathan Rydh's strategy guide (used with permission) provides some examples of "how to think" during a game.

Specific topics

• Openings
• Connections
• Bottlenecks
• Ladders
• Ladder handling
• Switchback
• Templates
• Equivalent patterns
• Common mistakes
• Tips and tricks
• Territory
• Local play, Global play
• Walls
• Ropes
• Glossary
• Puzzles, sometimes also called Problems
• Proverbs
• Tactics
• Forcing moves
• Josekis