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What is the significance of this setup?

What is the significance of this setup?

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YOU retards...i posted it that way to "show" the set-up with both colors....no they are not playing each other....😠

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Originally posted by tomtom232
if white has the move...wouldn't he have to break symmetry?
In positions where Black apes White's moves, White already has the initiative. Eventually, the game will reach such a position that Black will no longer be able to carry on with his strategy.

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I've found this info on the Hipo, doesn't seem to match what's shown in this thread.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/hippo.htm

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/openings.htm

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/hippo_games.htm

http://www.chessville.com/instruction/Openings/Martin/Jan04a.htm

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those are the old hippo....the new hippo is the one article you posted from andrew martins site.

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Originally posted by chessisvanity
those are the old hippo....the new hippo is the one article you posted from andrew martins site.
Thanx, I'll study that page more.

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I only read a small portion of it, but IM Andrew Martin's book, "The Hippopotamus Rises" had some witty prose and some rather bizarre games in it.

Spassky played the Hippo twice in his unsuccessful World Championship Match against Petrosian in 1966. Both games were drawn.

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