Abalone - Teaching With 9 Times World Champion!! - Vincent Frochot

Abalone is a two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987. Players are represented by opposing black and white marbles on a hexagonal board with the objective of pushing six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board. I received Vincent Frochot from France, 9 times World Champion of Abalone, to teach me the game! The link of his website to play Abalone: https://www.abal.online/ Feel free to follow me on Twitch   / sephibbz_fj   if you wanna participate to the lives. You can also join us on Discord to talk about board games:   / discord   00:00 intro 00:57 rules of Abalone 04:15 Vincent 05:25 http://www.abal.online/ 08:55 Standard start position 10:10 Belgian Daisy start position 11:02 first move advantage 12:37 draws 17:15 average number of moves 22:05 singularity 26:10 commenting Florian moves 29:00 balance between score and position 31:15 Belgian Daisy opening triangle 34:14 White opening example 37:00 evaluate a position 38:55 how to win with a defense 40:33 Vincent Mosquito opening explained 46:22 Triangulation 49:38 how to find useful moves 57:16 learn to push out with 4 marbles 1:04:27 puzzle 1 - find the fork 1:08:09 puzzle 2 - triangulation 1:15:04 puzzle 2 - solution 1 1:17:30 puzzle 2 - solution 2 1:19:35 playing together 1:39:31 quick analysis of the game 1:41:36 final thoughts