Attacking with the Owen/Hippo defence - Chess Forums

hippochess

Nov 25, 2010

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birdboy1

Nov 25, 2010

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time control?

hippochess

Nov 25, 2010

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birdboy1 wrote:

time control?

It was a 3 min blitz game at Russian #1 playing site.

Atos

Nov 25, 2010

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hippochess wrote:

I found at once the killing 25…Rxf3!! whilst it takes some 10-15s to my strongest chess engines to find out this powerful shot :)))).

Well, engines have to calculate all the lines and they don't sacrifice unless they are absolutely sure that everything is forced, while humans can sacrifice on intuition / hope that it will work out.

hippochess

Nov 25, 2010

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Re: Well, engines have to calculate all the ...

That’s right Atos. During the game I played 25…Rxf3!! more or less intuitively tough I was able to calculate 25…Rxf3!! 26. Kxf3 Rf8+ 27. Kg2 Bxe4+! and find out that White’s king is in big trouble.

strategicmind

Dec 17, 2010

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I did a queen side attack using hippo defence it was wonderfull to operate hippo in queen side. chechk hippopotamus attacks forum for the game .