# Hippopotamus Defence

> group of chess openings in which Black moves a number of pawns to the sixth rank, often developing pieces to the seventh rank, and does not move any pawns to the fifth rank in the opening

**Wikidata**: [Q1620072](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1620072)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus_Defence)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/hippopotamus-defence


## References

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