Must See! A Competitive Shobu Match!
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SHOBU is a beautifully crafted abstract strategy game for 2 players. The game features 4 square wood boards (2 of each color) and 16 natural river stones for each player, in two colors, with a rope dividing the play area in half.
Your turn is in two parts. First, a player may move one of their stones up to two spaces in any direction, including diagonally, in what is called a passive (or set up) move. Second, they take a more aggressive move, which must be the same direction and number of spaces as the first move. It is this second move that allows you to push stones across the board - or off the board's edge. Remove all four of your opponent's stones from just one of the four boards to win.
SHOBU evokes the feeling of GO or CHESS but provides its own unique challenge. It feels immediately familiar and yet is wholly distinct and engaging.
Few games have been able to capture me like this to the point on which I watched an actual match. I wish I was smart enough to be able to see a strategy
Great game. Nice to see some winning moves missed. Makes me feel better about my playing 😂
😂 keep watching the channel, you’ll see a lot of that around here!
It does not matter much but black goes first in Shobu. 6:50 broke the rules by making passive move on opponent's home board. 12:40 missed a winning move. Please remove the stones from the spaces between the boards. Clutter makes it harder to think about positions.
At 8:50 also a winning move was overlooked. White could have moved (D8-B6, H7-F5)!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the illegal move at 6:50, it was really bugging me lol
So your passive move can only be on your home boards? I have played a few games but hadn’t picked that up
@@tomross2751 yes, rules are very clear about that.
@@cuc9605 I'm so glad other people noticed this. Both seem so obvious I wondered if they were ignoring them to lengthen the video - though I suppose its harder to spot these things while playing.
Fun fact: Shobu has 51 unique moves out of the 174 possible first-turn moves.
For comparison, Chess has 20 unique moves out of 20 possible first-turn moves,
and Go has 55 unique moves out of 361 possible first-turn moves.
Being that Shobu has over twice as many unique first turn moves than Chess does on the same size board goes to show just how complex Shobu truly is.
Shobu is awesome!
@@DualBrainGames it certainly is. And has what might be the most unique move set I've seen in any abstract game so far.
You just made me notice that you can play Shobu on a chessboard, with a chess set. Just consider the color of the 4x4 board to be the color of whatever square is in the corner of the chessboard (i.e. dark board on the left, light board on the right). This will put the light-colored boards diagonal to each other, rather than across, but that doesn't matter in Shobu's rules.
@@LastStar007 You're right. Adjust the rules as follows: do a passive move on one of your 4x4 home boards; follow up with an aggressive move on the opposite side (left-right) from the home board you used in your passive move. Etc.
You'd also have to take the pieces of the board, as soon as they cross a middle line (between columns D/E or rows 4/5),
I'll have to try this.
13:11 White player • Brown home board • passive white row1col2 -> row2col2 • aggressive • White home board • row3col2 push last piece for win.
This guy sounds like Walter White
A good tactical strategy game for all ages
The game depends on concentration so as not to break the rules
It is almost at the same level as chess
Because it depends on strategy and tactics and does not depend on dice
The game deserves in-depth study and consideration of the size of the possibilities available
I hope that the game will spread more and more, especially on phones and personal computers
Yes! I agree, thank you for watching!
It seems very difficult to find a Shobu video where there is no rule-breaking.
Yes ... we did mess up there a brief time or two. I notice there’s many videos in general with pretty much any game that has some rule breaking here or there, oh well, at least cool games keep being introduced, which is important.
@@DualBrainGames indeed.
think No Rolls Barred had a pretty good match with Adam and Laurie in their channel's LOTB tourney.
16:09
Brown board B3 to A4
White board B3 push to A4 to claim victory
could have won at 6:16 straight away by moving the bottom black stone in the bottom left board all the way to the left and push the white stone out at the top right board.
Isnt that moving 3 spaces?