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Hippopotamus attack #1

The game below is a rarely played so called Hippopotamus attack (defense) which I decided to study out by playing live. So was my first experience.
 
I had also found that there're no games played that way in chess databases at chess.com and chesstempo.com. If you know any source revealing that opening with really played games please post links here in comments.

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  • 2 months ago

    hboson47

    The whole idea of this hypermodern opening is constant pressure with ur fianchettoed bishops on the center and pressure on the flanks with indirect pressure on white's center which most of the times tries to over reach. From my blitz games, I see d6 move needs to be played by black soon, else it might get itself in sticky situation.

  • 2 months ago

    hboson47

    This is one of my favorite openings with black. Resulting in very dynamic and interesting games.  Here's a game I played over blitz recently.If white doesnt know how to play against it,very easy to get outflanked and crushed.

    http://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=478734201

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