True Chess Wisdom - The Brooklyn Variation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0un1OeyXxRU&list=PLVWaFpMwtaGgPUZTG3xSytto_CX7cjMzB&index=59

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An improved version of the Hippopotamus Defence, no doubt. you may laugh now, but as time goes on, No one will laugh at this.

(for it will be long forgotten)

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Ruy Lopez, Breyer + 1.Nf3 = The Brooklyn Variation.

Very stable opening. - the horse returns to the stable.

If it's good enough for Magnus, it's good enough for You. (although Magnus and Philidor are magicians, so Everything's good for them)

you can't just show a line, say it doesn't lose immediately and expect people to believe its playable! I think people might want some explanations on why you think giving White this tempo is a good idea

okay ghoul. Black mentains Full flexibility, while White has committed his "private Brian" to e5, and now Black can toy with it at leisure. that's as deep as I see it. of course, as the GM said, Black can at some point play Nf3. While in the regular 1.e4, Nf6 opening, the horse is on b6 - not  guarding the king.

"full flexibility" is another way to say "no stake of the center and no pieces developed". After White plays 3 d4 and 4 Nf3 I see no compensation for the space-disadvantage: it seems like a bad Alekhine where the Knight isn't on d5 or b6 where it would control the center.