GM Hansen's Hippo Speedrun | Part 1 

I counted 30 times you looked away from the screen. About half of them were to your lower right and half of them were to your upper left. Your eyes seem to mainly focus straight ahead , but your eyes ever so slightly transition off of the center sometimes without you looking in any other direction which makes me wonder if there is another screen/display in front of your main display. I know one is chat your reading, so that gives you an excuse to look away sometimes. At least 30 times you looked away from the screen though always between moves that were on short pause. I believe you are cheating 100% along with most of these other streamer guys. I could be wrong tho just my thoughts.

Eric: “Can I offer you a queen trade” Opponent: “Can I offer you my queen”

So nice of Eric to always inform his opponents of check so they don’t make illegal moves

LETS GOOOO I’ve been playing more principled openings lately, but for some reason I’ve always had a soft spot for the hippo. I can’t wait to learn more about it with this speed run!!

I can't believe how calm he is with 3min chess, able to explain and everything!

Eric one other thing. I just played 3 blitz hippo opening games. This is the first time ever playing hippo. I won all three games and one with 94% accuracy. Thank you for your speedruns!!

Wow what a day! A new Eric Hansen Speedrun! And some very good thumbnail art.

Feel free to take this down whenever, I’ve gotten the gist of it and don’t need my enemies learning anything about this. Thank you for this

New speedrun LETS GOOOOOO Thanks boys. I'll watch every EP

Just wanted to say thanks for the thumbnails, always funny and ingenious.

Really loving your speedrun and Aman's. Learning so much!

21:25 thanks 4 the invite sir. Glad I stayed and learned about eater evolution.

My first Hansen video and brah, you’ve got me cracking up. I look forward to the rest of this series! 😂

I like how he shows humility to his oponents

"I don't know what kind of drugs his horse is on." omg i am dying🤣

I didn't realize how agressive the Hippo could ever be :) Great tutorial from my persective.

“Hippos can handle large mammals” underrated joke😂

Please keep this going it’s a very interesting opening

17:14 "G spot it is "

"a man that can't follow his word isn't worth a whole lot" - that one hit deep

Eric's Hippo for black, Aman's London for white...no excuses to not be at least 1000. Brahs are giving free courses for brahs and e thank you very much for it!

YESSSSS I'm so glad you decided to do this Eric! not enough youtube vids out there on this aesthetically symmetrical opening. I want to add another benefit of this opening is that you can safely observe how your opponent plays and what they're plotting

This is good content, mate. Thank you for providing this to the world. I have been struggling with overly aggressive tactics from opponents. I think a hungry hippo might help calm them down a bit. Cheers, bud.

Love the chessbrah opening speedruns. lookin forward to this one.

Many thanks for making this series! Looking forward to learning from it!

"the anti-hippo" 😂😂

This was great! looking forward next parts

10:30 As Aman says, 3 digit ELO means "can see 3 squares away"

Being as calm as Eric. Life goals👍

I need more Hippo Eric. Please. More hippo. I gained 100 elo points in 1 day after watching you play the Hippo. I need more Hippo.

I have watched this video several times. It's that interesting. I don't know this opening, but I manage to win all games I played. At my level, people tend to blunder much more against it. It seems to be too hard for an attacker to break in, at least at lower ratings. Thank you, GM Hansen ! Thank you very very much!

Finally a speedrun with the hippo! ❤🎉 Can‘t wait for the coming episodes …

Just played my first game with it around 750 and i genuinely felt like a supercomputer 😂 thank you so much for this series

Gta love how the "warm up" was pure GM Cheif-Brah material.

THE SPEEDRUN I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR!! ❤❤❤ you should try speed running uploading these to RU-vid 😅

Just found this speedrun, and let me say, Hansen's chill professionalism is a form of entertainment I did not know I needed lol. Good vid, can't wait to try the Hippo myself

The hippo is one of the planets most dangerous mammals, responsible for up to 3000 deaths annually the hippo possesses an unparalleled bite and a land speed of 30 mph (48 kph) the hippo is able to chase down prey through a combination of speed, strength, and surprise. The hippo should be honored to have Eric opt to champion their species, as from what I have seen, Eric would easily beat a hippo in a fight. One time I was exploring the wooded rivers around calagary on my pontoon when I peered into the woods, only to the original chessbrah himself. In awe, I pull my pontoon closer, close enough I can hear him loudly panting looking straight at, I hear him say “Let’s give him a little dad-bod shuffle ay?” In my confusion I became paralyzed, as Eric gets down on all fours, and launches out into a hound-like sprint of which the world had never seen, I pull a J-turn in my boat and dart the other direction. My pontoon is fast, Eric is faster. Able to run on the surface of the water like a basilisk chasing after me. Begin throwing things off the boat at him to lighten the load and slow him down, but he effortlessly destroys everything in his way. He gets up right on the boat and I drop my 100”-150” awol wallmounted flatscreen tv directly onto him. Finally he is forced to submerge, but under the water I see him paddling, like a platypus out of hell Eric is able to swiftly glide under the water. My pontoon jolts to a stop, the engine still fighting to flee. I hear scraping, tearing coming from the lower haul on the starboard side, chunks of metal begin floating up from beneath the surface. At this point I know it’s over, Eric crawls onto the upper deck, where his bones crackle as he stands on his two feet. He looks at me and he says “let’s bring all the pieces to the party” as he cartoonishly unhinges his jaw and consumes me whole. All in all he really ruined the serene beauty of remote Alberta, don’t support these guys.

I just played this opening about 10 times and got slapped every time… I guess I have to keep watching

Thumbnail is funny AF 🤣🤣.

You're honestly the funniest chess player man 😂😂 "The Anti-Hippo!"

The hippo is one of the first openings i learned because i thought hippo was a funky name for an opening. Very convenient content for me to say the least

I really appreciate this video because I use the hippo defense myself. I especially appreciate you playing this level because this is where I’m at too. I can’t seem to get past it. My middle game is garbage. Yours is going to help mine.

Tried it a few times and got demolished. Great boost to my confidence haha

800: you can not take away my options 😡

13:42 did u take an imaginary sip of your drink LOL 😂😂

😂I dying laughing. Awesome stuff

The first dude ahahahahah amazing

Started playing the hippo and haven’t lost yet 😎

Bro I hope Eric or his editor make one of those Hikaru speedrun style intros

That was great. I'm playing the hippo now. Love your content

10:30 got me laughing so hard 😂😂

It feels like a 2009 video.

32:21 not sure why this made me laugh so hard

I'm so glad u made this video to the true hippo and I have tears in my eyes for in 1977 I did move the pawns like this but put the bishops in the middle which I called the jbird or the bishop n knight that I call the knight bird or the queen an knight which I call the knight queen or the queen an bishop I call the Donna bird an the whole intent is to move your pieces in through this way is my theory since 1977 which I did on my own and from what Jay said back then there was no bishops in middle that he said he researched but only the knights this is the second video of yours I ever saw an I like it❤😊

This is such a fun opening thanks breh

"How do my opponents know I'm going to play the Hippo? Are they stream sniping?" ~Guy named "Hippopotamus" with a profile pic of a Hippopotamus

It's like watching Jon Jones fight a two year old. Absolutely brutal.

LOL made me choke on my flavor blasted goldfish when asseater123123123 was mentioned. Classic

I laughed so hard at “It’s too late to meet Gandhi” 😂. Meet is an Indian name and Gandhi is a very common surname, hence the dude was not trolling but it got a good laugh outta me lol

Handling the 4 pawns in the center/early f4 + f5 by white is what I struggle most at with this opening. Other than that its so spiky and fun to play.

2:10 hahhhaa Man I love ur content ❤ 8:02 🤣

Lets gooo!! Also pretty impressive is the name Hippopotamus was available. 26:00 - 26:25 false advertising haha

Opening used in first game practically refuted the hippo haha

love this opening and love the vibe of your vids, I'd love to see a Bird opening speedrun in the future!

the warm up was very hot lol....damn fantastic game.

bro eric delivers

thumbnail guy needs a raise

Love it when Chad McChadson gets served up a pretty mate 35:00

Ooh a new speedrun. Nice. Love the thumbnail too 🤣

Well, I'm completely sold!

great stuff as usual, definitely got me interested in trying out this opening myself

"what kinda drugs this horse is on...on A5..." HILARIOUS

Everyone is on drugs at 2am lol

When do we get episode 2, I love these speedruns

great thumbnail

This is the most fun opening I've ever played, thank you for this speedrun.

Push em baby

Really gonna enjoy this one, also, great thumbnail.

i remember that komodo speedrun where eric used the hippo to beat the high komodo lvls good throwback

Waiting for next parts ..... Great content

"Am I being sniped?!?" his name is Hippopotamus....

ahh can't believe you didn't take the pawn/rook @20:19

Awesome that you made a video on this. The hippo is the only opening I play.

1st game, your third move should have been h6 instead of Bg7. Then when they push either g or h pawn you can lock it up.

Man I kinda feel bad seeing all these plebs getting bulldozed. Damn can u imagine ur just trying to get some point and improve then boom here comes eric dressed like sheep 🤣🤣🤣. Great vid

This is awesome, no bs just plating and showing us a cool opening, I may check if you have any e4 openings videos too

this should not be called the hippo..it should be called "THE 300" or "Spartan opening" . This isnt just chess bu a beautiful system designed mostly for black....yesterday at 4 am.....after playing many games with e4/stonewall for white and amans french defense/caro kann for black...i again tried out three hippo games.....all were crushing....oponents didnt know what was coming next....they hung queens....rooks....i am going to be watcjhing all of your hippo vidoes...taking notes and marking the best games from each series and make it my repertoire i guess. Your style is amazing.......crushing

Nice job Eric

we need the next part asap

I remember watching this on stream. I thought it wasn't coming on YT because this was around the same time as Aman's botez gambit speedrun so like a year ago? Nice to see it here.

Loving it, thanks chief!!!!

I've been using the hippo after watching this video of yours, ever since I've been checking and checkmating people non stop lol

This is a really cool looking opening, definitely going to try it out

I'm going to start doing 10 pushups and 10 air squats every time one of your opponent's hangs a piece and I'm going to get f#$ckin' jacked!

please if you can do video lesson about this opning

note that a 29:30, you didnt win. You faced a classic indian reaching a desperate position. Opens the bot, sees the evaluation and AFK. So you didnt win that was a timeout because he had something more important to do irl. So you didnt win and more importantly, he didnt lose

You did Chad McChadson dirty lmao

yes lads

I see a new Chessbrah speedrun, I click

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