Sumito & Positions of Superiority in Abalone

Sumito & Positions of Superiority in Abalone
Hello! My name is Melissa Shank and on behalf of expertvillage.com, today we are discussing some basic tips for playing the game Abalone. Now this segment is very important. What we are going to discuss now is something called Sumito. Sumito is a very important word because we are talking about the word itself basically means to push your opponent. Here we are pushing your opponent's marbles. The word Sumito if you think of it for a moment, like Sumo Wrestlers; the object of Sumo wrestlers is to push your opponent out of the ring. So in this case we are setting up a Sumito. We are pushing our opponent's marbles and we need to set that up and there are 3 different ways we can do that. So if we go to the board once again here, you will notice in order to push your opponent's marbles in any direction that we have been discussing, you have to set up a Sumito and this basically means that your marbles are going to be numerically superior to your opponent's marbles. There were 3 various moves or 3 Sumito's that you can set up. Of course you are allowed by yourself to move 1 marble in any direction but you are not setting up any kind of a Sumito here. Now as I mentioned you are only allowed to use either 1, 2 or 3 marbles at a time so if you can think about it we have 3 positions of superiority that are available. The first one is a 2 push to 1 Sumito. So for instance if we had set up here 2 black and 1 white, that's a 2 to 1 push Sumito. You are pushing your opponent's marble like that 2 to 1. You can also set that up so that it would be a 3 push to a 2 Sumito like this; 3 to 2. You could then eject one of your opponent's marbles here pushing it right off the board or finally you could also have a 3 push 2 to 1 Sumito as well and there you would be able to eject yet another white marble off of the board so here you ejected 2. So you can see Sumito means that basically pushing your opponent off of the playing board, the hexagon board here but it is positioned of superiority.