Hippopotamus Defence against GM: GM Toms Kantans - WIM Raghavi N., Rapid chess
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1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. f4 Nd7
5. Nf3 e6 6. Be3 Ne7 7. h4 h5 8. Ng5 d5
9. e5 b6 10. g4 c5 11. Be2 cxd4 12. Bxd4 hxg4
13. Bxg4 Nf8 14. Nb5 Nf5 15. Bxf5 gxf5 16. Nd6+ Kd7
17. Ndxf7 Qe7 18. Nxh8 Bxh8 19. Qh5 Bg7 20. O-O-O Ba6
21. Rhg1 Kc7 22. Nf7 Be2 23. Qxe2 Qxf7 24. c4 dxc4
25. Qxc4+ Kb7 26. Kb1 Bh6 27. Rc1 Qd7 28. Be3 Rd8
29. Rc3 Kb8 30. h5 Qb7 31. Rgc1
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Chess master and author Fred Reinfeld once stated of it that "any expert player would dismiss Black's position as lost." Grandmaster Reuben Fine, one of the world's strongest players in the 1930s and 1940s, instructing his readers how to deal with such "Irregular Openings", wrote that "once a plus in development or center is set up, a well-conducted attack will decide."
Reinfeld, who died in 1964, might have been surprised to see Black employing the same system of development successfully in the 1966 world championship match. There, Boris Spassky employed the same set-up, dubbed the "Hippopotamus" by commentators, in the 12th and 16th match games against World Champion Tigran Petrosian. In both games Spassky developed his bishops to b7 and g7, and his knights to d7 and e7. Both games ended in draws.
In employing this system against Petrosian, Spassky was likely inspired by the Slovak International Master Maximilian Ujtelky, who had been experimenting with similar openings for several years.[6] Ujtelky's game as Black against Spassky at Sochi 1964, in which he played the same setup Spassky later adopted against Petrosian, is given below. Ujtelky played even more provocatively in some other games, such as against the very strong Soviet International Master Rashid Nezhmetdinov in the same tournament (see diagram at right). Nezhmetdinov sacrificed pawns on moves 26, 36, and 41, a knight on move 45, and a bishop on move 47 – and lost in 75 moves. Amatzai Avni, an Israeli FIDE Master and psychologist, has written of Ujtelky's play:
Basically, Ujtelky was provoking his opponents to the extreme and was waiting for them to have a nervous breakdown. Sometimes he was slaughtered, at other times his scheme paid dividends.
Blitz chess (also known as speed or fast chess) is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Openings, tactics and strategy are same.
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