The Hippo Defense
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I’ve been playing the hippo defense a bit recently and I’m finding it hard to find any online resources to help me improve in it, if anyone knows that would be greatly appreciated
Bruh...we just had a forum on this...Btw don’t play Hippo cause White gets easy edge and your only chance to win is if they overextend
Thank you, I actually was asking for resources though
Jun 25, 2020
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Ya I play hippo too and there isn’t a lot of resources for it. I actually bought a book on the hippo defense but it is complete rubbish. Another annoying thing is the chess community completely hates the hippopotamus defense, so if you ever put yourself out there using the hippo- there will be backlash
Jun 25, 2020
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#5
The reason why I like the hippo is because it is anti-theory, which is honestly useless at my level...But I will get better and it will take its effect. It is noted to be called the “universal defense”, which I agree to but some people are over critical of the idea. Of course no opening is perfect or universal, what do you expect...
Jun 25, 2020
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#6
If it’s good enough beating world champion magnus carlsen, it sure is good enough for me.
Jun 25, 2020
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#7
Christian Bauer has a section on the hippo in his 1.b6 book, that may help
Hilarityy wrote:
Thank you, I actually was asking for resources though
I meant that it would be a good idea to get resources on something better.
olJoshie1 wrote:
If it’s good enough beating world champion magnus carlsen, it sure is good enough for me.
While the Hippo is not great, a strong player will occasionally overextend a bit too much and lose. The Hippo only appears in the games of Masters when someone has Black and NEEDS a win because the Hippo keeps pieces on the board and White can’t force a draw.
Jun 25, 2020
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#10
FizzyBand wrote:
olJoshie1 wrote:
If it’s good enough beating world champion magnus carlsen, it sure is good enough for me.
While the Hippo is not great, a strong player will occasionally overextend a bit too much and lose. The Hippo only appears in the games of Masters when someone has Black and NEEDS a win because the Hippo keeps pieces on the board and White can’t force a draw.
or when they freaking feel like it!
Jun 25, 2020
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#11
The HIPPO is a good defense specially in super fast time control. Just shuffle pieces don't advance a pawn or minor piece beyond 6th rank and white usually runs out of time.
Jun 25, 2020
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Jun 25, 2020
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#13
an ACTUAL BOOK here. I hope this helps... I remember seeing it when searching for "Knight on the Left"
Jun 25, 2020
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#14
That’s the one I have, it’s rubbish unless if you can study games we’ll
you must not have a life if you seriously just said hippo defense.
Jun 25, 2020
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#17
Sorry river rat, but there is no river rat defense so you have to settle for this
The river rat defense is going all in on a flush draw, and winning because of dumb luck. However, it’s exclusive to Hold’em
Jun 26, 2020
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Hilarityy wrote:
Thank you, I actually was asking for resources though
You can order the book "The Modern Tiger", but also keep in mind the hippo cannot be used against everything.
If I remember right, it is where white plays 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Nf3 a6 5.a4, specifically, where it advertises the hippo and covers a full chapter on it.
The hippo against lines with f4 are terrible for Black.
You can find "The Modern Tiger" at qualitychess.co.uk, amazon, or your local online chess shop.