@6
"The hippo is a double fianchetto with a6, d6, e6, h6, Nd7, and Ne7"
++ Yes, but if wanted it is possible to transpose Nb8-c6-e7 and Ng8-f6-d7.
Even then it would not be a transposition as Black has spent 2 extra moves to get the Knights there.
That would be like saying 1.d3 d5 2.c3 e6 3.d4 Nf6 4.c4 that White has just played the Queen's Gambit. He hasn't.
Just get over it! You need to figure out a legitimate defense to 1.b4. Trying to force a cookie-cutter position against all lines is flat out bad chess.
Trying to force the Hippo (or Modern Defense as a whole) against 1.b4 is like trying to play the London System against the Modern Defense or the Colle against the King's Indian or the King's Indian Attack against 1...e5 or the Stonewall Dutch against d4/c4/Nc3/Nf3 or closing your eyes and playing 1.c4/2.g3/3.Bg2/4.Nc3 against e5/Nc6/f5/Nf6 (3.Bg2 is a bad move there, 3.Nc3 is necessary and if 3...f5, then 4.Nf3!).
Playing cookie-cutter chess is a clear indication that all you have done is memorize a few moves for one side and not understanding jack bleep about what you are doing!
I think perhaps you're mixing me up with tygxc? You were certainly "calling him out" about 2 extra moves but I wasn't paying any attention because you're both just as bad as each other.
If you wish, now the mystery's solved, you can apologise to me for attacking me because you thought I was tygxc and we'll forget it.
@1
"If white opens with b4, can you aslo use the Hyppo as a black defence?"
++ Yes, you can.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1097579
I think Polugievski is playing a Benoni set-up there.
I think a Hippo is anything unrecognisable where a lot of pawns are played to the third rank but not beyond and where the knights go to d7 and e7.
This is post #10. I was replying to tygxc. I pointed out that it was a Benoni, so I really don't know what you're talking about and, more to the point, neither, it seems, do you.
It's your funeral.
Of course your wouldn't understand because you are clueless elsewhere. You are making up baloney in post 10. What you say about the Hippo is not true, and then you proceed to call me out in post 11, starting your series of personal attacks against me.
Here is what you said:
You're too opinionated and closed minded to be trustworthy in your comments, @ThrillerFan. As I mentioned, I usually play 1. ...e5 2. ...f6 against 1. b4. You'll be saying that's "garbage" next.
Opinionated? Closed Minded? Not Trustworthy?
WRONG! Totally WRONG! NOT TRUE AT ALL, AND THE START OF YOUR DEFAMATION/LIBEL ATTACK!
So again I say, QUIT NOW SPEWING FALSE BULLS**T ABOUT ME UNLESS YOU CAN UPLOAD YOUR CERTIFIED PHD IN PSYCHOLOGY, BECAUSE OTHERWISE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID IS NOTHING MORE THAN A PERSONAL ATTACK AGAINST ME, AND MANY OF YOUR POSTS HAVE ALREADY BEEN REPORTED AS WELL!