Talk:Hippopotamus Defence
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[edit] Old talk
Hippopotamus defence has been on the votes for deletion page. Decision was to keep. The debate archived on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Hippopotamus Defence. Sjakkalle 08:47, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Hi, if you google hippo with chess you will see that the name Hippopotamus also describes a different opening system for black, viz b6, d6, e6, g6, Bb7, Bg7, Ne7, Nd7. IM Andrew Martin has published a book and articles on this, I believe. So I think there should be a separate page for that Hippo too. Tommy-Chivs 15:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Tommy-Chivs is right. Actually, that opening, although offbeat, is considerably more respectable than the article the text describes. Spassky played that opening twice in one of his world championship matches against Petrosian, drawing both times (although as I recall Petrosian came within a hair's-breadth of annihilating Spassky, blundering at the key moment, in the second of those games). One of the games is here. Reviews of IM Martin's 2005 book The Hippopotamus Rises: The Re-Emergence of a Chess Opening are here and here. Krakatoa 20:45, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
