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This is an opening that arises usually with the sicilian and the english. I use it occasionally and get pretty good results. I was just wondering if anybody else used it or had information on it and what they thought of it.

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http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068490

or

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1019693

^ is this the sort of thing your talking about??

If those 2 games are anything to go by it looks like both players are hesitant to move -- both waiting for the other so they can 'react' rather than 'act'

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Those are hedgehogs, though slightly different from what I have seen. And yes, the opening appears very passive, but really has a lot of latent energy. I was hoping to learn how to use this opening formation, but it is nearly impossible to find ANYTHING on it, and I do appreciate you linking these two games so that I may study them a little. Thanks, and any more info would be great.

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Hi!
Read a little about hedgehogs. The opponent has much space but often this fact is his problem: he tries to break up the position and the hedgehog-player overruns him.
I'm a very weak player, so if I'm talking s?$t please nevermind.
I would like to recommend the following book with a lot of hedgehog-games that shows how to "blow out" of a hedgehog-position:
László Polgar- Chess Middlegames

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I don't know anything about this opening -- I just went on Chesswise and did a few searches and found those too games.....

if you want more information read the kibitz comments under the games, it may direct you to something interesting....

I.e Mihai Suba - he's supposed to be a revolutionary of this system

The problem I had is that this "formation" doesn't have and eco code, and can be arived at in many different ways to transpose to something similair...

good luck anyway

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Originally posted by cmsMaster
This is an opening that arises usually with the sicilian and the english. I use it occasionally and get pretty good results. I was just wondering if anybody else used it or had information on it and what they thought of it.
Kasparov - Deep Junior, New York, 2003

Game 4.

http://chess.about.com/library/weekly/aa03b15.htm

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Mihai Suba - The Hedgehog.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0713486961/002-7540375-9533604?v=glance&n=283155

At the above site you can take a look inside the book.

This is one of the best books on the Hedgehog.

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http://www.angelfire.com/nf/chess/Hedgehog.html
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Wow, thank you everyone, this system seems extremely hard to get info. on and you guys have really helped a lot, I may actually delve into this a little more deeply now. Thanks again, and if anybody else would like to add something that would also be greatly appreciated.

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ENTER THE HEDGEHOG

an article by Andrew Martin

http://www.jeremysilman.com/chess_bits_pieces/040417_Martin_Hedgehog.html

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Dynamic play in the Hedgehog system
Lecture by UMBC Chess Coach Igor Epshteyn

http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~sherman/Chess/masterprep/lectures/fall96/less7.html

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A book:

Jozsef Palkovi - Hedgehog against the English Opening:

http://www.chesscentral.com/caissa/hedgehog-english-chess-opening.htm

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A John Watson review of Mihai Suba's book The Hedgehog:

http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jw/jw_hedgehog_system.html

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