In this sense it’s closely related to another flexible ‘three rank’ formation – the Hedgehog defence.Īlthough the Hippopotamus defence (or Hippo-like structures) was played occasionally in the 20th century it wasn’t until the early 2000s that it established itself as a (more or less) ‘regular’ chess opening. ![]() Hippopotamus (or Double fianchetto) chess opening is a solid (yet flexible) ‘three rank’ set-up for Black. Starting out the Hippopotamus defence by Nikolay Kostov
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