IF YOU DON’T PLAY THE HIPPOPOTAMUS DEFENSE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING??? | 2022 Pacific Coast Open! 

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Feeling these games, Solo-- I appreciate the objective analysis win, lose, or draw. You have quite the knack when it comes to explaining moves and strategy. Kudos.

Learning the hippo right now and really appreciate the videos you're putting out. I selfishly hope they don't get too popular :D

I play Hyppo almoust 12 years in tournament chess with very good result.Hippo is universal way to try win with black.You can try 1.b62.Lb7 with hippo idea,or 1.g62.Lg7 with hippo idea.But you can try my idea(Ultra modern Hippo):1.e6,2.Se73.d64.Sd75.a6 6.b5(b6)7.c58.Lb7,without g6,Lg7,Se7-Sg6 idea,Le7,0-0,or g6,Lg7 if you must.The key idea is pawn c5,with d6,e6 pawn.The key idea in Hyppo is atack with c5 or f5,opening bishop,on b7 or g7.Great video.We love Hippo.I have almoust 250 Hippo games with black(tornament live chess+internet speed chess).The good books is Hillarp Person-Modern defense,The Hippopotamus rises:A.Martin,The Hippopotamus defence:A.D.Santis

Greetings from Guatemala. Love these Hippo videos. Keep this up and some day every Hippo player in the world will be subscribing to your channel. With so many chess channels out there, you need a specialty, so why not make your specialty be the Hippo.

Another beautiful Hippo game, Mr. Solomon! 😊♥ Looking forward to more instructive Hippo videos in the future!

Yay! Glad to see you win again, especially with the good ol' Hippo. And thanks for the analysis too, it's nice to see what high level players are doing against the Hippo. I'd still watch if you played other openings, but if you played the Hippo all tournament, I won't complain :D

The Hippo strikes again! A very nice Hippo win, which shows how aggressive the Hippo can be if the opponent makes a slight mistake. At 5:35, you mentioned the move f5 for white. I think white would be slightly better, although it is very complicated.

Congrats Solomon, very impressive and i am happy for you going up the ladder, you deserve it ^^

Good content mate

Giant win for the Hippo!! 👏👏

I have a question, Hippo is a really hard opening to play against, but I find key ideas in the hippo to be hard to learn. Can you recommend any easy / fasy ways to learn how to play in certain openings?

I agree with your G3 start, it doubles as camouflage for the modern defense allowing you to better setup the mighty hippo.

I like the system openings. I like the Hippo as black and the collie as white. both of these openings give players options. I like how in the Hippo you could either go for a mating attack or simplify into an endgame. My style is more strategic so I like to play endgames, I like to trade early and when I play online it easy for me to do that in the Hippo and the collie openings. If I see a chance to win material or weave a mating pattern I will take it but generally look for endgame starting from move one. Your videos are helpful thanks.

No chess set. True sign of strong chess players. 💪

great video & thanks for the insights on playing the hippo

I came across your channel today. This Hippo defence is insane! Great game and great videos man!

Delicious win, Solomon! I like the idea of keeping the K in the center, then castle the opposite side AFTER W has committed itself. It's more of a Bull "'Ole" defense.)

Thank you for all your help for helping me to understand the Hippo. Great opening!

g6 Bg7 move order also has the virtue of keeping them guessing. Are you playing a Modern? a Pirc? Especially with quick time controls, every minute helps.

I beat my english teacher with the Hippo, im so happy!! I finally broke 1000 too!! thank you sm for you videos bro

Very instructive. Thank you.

Another great game and loving the analysis. Like you say, why complicate things when you don't have to. there might be a fancy complicated way of winning in 10 moves but if there's a simple certain way of winning in 20 moves, I'd choose that every time.

Great content. I learned a ton, thanks!

Yes, Daniel Naroditsky has about 3 videos on his YT versus the Hippo setup-- he seems to have a great understanding of how to combat it effectively. Would love to see your thoughts!!

Playing the Rhinoceros Offense

Loving the series. Good luck with your master goal Solomon.

Nice game well played

Great game; first, escaping King to the Queenside & then exploiting white’s mistakes. Wonder how Black should precede if white immediately chops off the black knight as soon as it arrives on b6, deflecting black’s c pawn to b6 (half) opening the c file, but keeping the d-file closed. Even then black has an advantage because white wasted a lot of time pushing pawns, which ironically led to open lines for Black, rather than white!

Man I need to find a hippo book lol

This,the czech pirc and alekhine are my main black reps...

Great game. 👏I wonder why the hippo isn't more popular on GM level.

11:22 Whats wrong with just taking the knight on g3 ? Game over....

pretty

wow

Who need to bring his own chess set? Where are you, America? ^Laughs in Europe^

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Hippo

Gosh just play and stop all the useless chatter.

I'm totally an hippoist 🦛🦛🦛🦛🦛