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The Hippopotamus Defence is a chess opening system employed by Black, consisting of a double fianchetto structure and a small pawn centre. The knights are typically developed to e7 and d7 and the rook's pawns to a6 and h6. This structure can be obtained by a wide variety of move orders but it occurs most frequently via the Modern Defence or Owen's Defence. The Hippopotamus can also be played against queen's pawn openings or flank openings and is thus a genuinely universal system. The same structure is also occasionally used by White.
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