Biiiiiiiiiiiiig trade.

Here is a hippo game from a while back where there was a huge tradeoff.  I probably could have played more energetically, but in the end, I was allowed to dominate the d file and get a passed pawn and that's what did him in. 

What I'm curious about is how I handled his early f4 and how a different sequence in that big trade would have left me.  I don't think he played the best moves there...

Ha ha, well thank you for that enthusiastic comment, Samuel.  I'll be posting more of these hippo games to get feedback on them, so you'll see a lot more!

Look for Modern Defense, Hippo.  If you have to, try typing the full name: hippopotamus.  That should bring some stuff up on it.

If you can find Grandmaster Tiger Hillarp Pearson's book on the modern, there's a whole chapter on the Hippo.  I think Andrew Martin also wrote a book dealing solely with the hippo.  If you can get ahold of those, I think they'd help you learn it.