Timeline for Is this opening a joke or serious?
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| Feb 8, 2021 at 19:22 | vote | accept | Greg Schmit | ||
| Jan 10, 2021 at 20:05 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | And BTW, I could post a ton of hippos here where Black always fell into the same trap: playing c5 just to attack the centre. Followed by e5, Ne4, Nd6+ and resign. Some never learn :P | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 20:03 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | @user21820: It is sound iff you know what you are doing, which I take for granted when Stockfish plays. :-) It can end up as a nightmare if you don't - you scratch your head, asking, what did I do wrong? Easy: counter a wing attack in the center, old adage. And if you can't, oops... | |
| Jan 10, 2021 at 10:33 | comment | added | user21820 | @HaukeReddmann: White castled at the usual pace in the opening in question, and it is sound according to Stockfish 10+. | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 16:33 | answer | added | user21820 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 9, 2021 at 0:04 | answer | added | Phischmaster | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 12:09 | comment | added | Hauke Reddmann | And concerning the Hippo, here is a protip from a player who was annoyed by this multiple times, even by ~2400 players: Do not, I repeat NOT castle lightly. The success of the black strategy critically hinges on whether you can rip open lines in the center. If that happens, he's busted (unless he can castle in the last moment, but then you have at least solid space and development advantage). If it remains closed because he can simply answer e.g. e5 with d5 and vice versa, you will be zergrushed on the king side without decent counterplay. | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 11:44 | comment | added | David | If this is a trap you definitely didn't fall for it | |
| Jan 8, 2021 at 6:02 | history | asked | Greg Schmit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |