The Hippopotamus Defense is a CHEAT CODE!

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If Borris Spassky can play the “hippo, ” in a world championship and beat Petrosian, well it’s ok for us plebes

peterthegreat

I generally play attacking games with white and methodical, slow-paced games with black. Though Caro-Kann is my go to opening for black, I've been wanting to add a new slow burner opening to my black repertoire. Been investigating the Hippo for a while. I think it'll be a nice surprise for opponents who can't handle tight, locked spaces.

Great stuff, S.

frozendilemma

Man I had to withdraw from that tournament because my whole hood was flooded out. Great stuff and happy to see Hippos being played and victorious!

banzaiburger

I think this viideo was for me, one of the most useful video you have done on the Hippo.

allanmarks

I bought your course and love it so far!

What I love about the hippo is you get to instantly work on the middlegame because there's not much to remember before that. By far my favourite parts of your course are on the middlegame ideas.

But re opening and especially combating the 3 central pawn setups, I wonder if you have ever tried starting with b6 rather than g6 which I personally love because you can then play e6 and often Bb4 to pin the knight protecting white's pawn on e4 (assuming white played d4 and e4 and threatens to get three central pawns) to clarify I mean something like 1 e4 b6 2 d4 Bb7 3 Nc3 e6 4 Bd3 Bb4, .... And then if f4 I like the aggressive and tricky f5, but the engine likes Nf6.

Would love it if you could make a video examining this line as an alternative to starting with g6. It's fun anyway and maybe something you could explore to complement the hippo course.

I like this even more reversed as white as you have the extra tempo and can go into some aggressive lines.

Have you ever tried this line?

joegreenwood

It's a must that the online players don't get their hands on this opening. The fight for elo points will be brutal if they do end up learning the secret of this set up. Great video, as always.

kshitiz

Fascinating Soloman, Thank You .. Mike.

OregonMikeH

Cool game black closing everything right im hoping for the level his playing against is right or maybe i should say the the opening his going against or both but i really enjoyed middle to end with some simple one movers as much as i love my one movers in a opening❤😊

GeorgeEpting