Source: http://www.asianchess.net/
by Michael Goeller
In his book American Grandmaster,
GM Joel Benjamin says he was surprised to be approached at a tournament
by a young chessplayer who said she was a great fan of his opening
ideas in the Pirc -- especially the line he calls "the Classical
Hippopotamus" beginning 1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Be2 O-O
6.O-O e6!? Why he should be surprised to be associated with this line,
though, is beyond me since he annotated several of his games with it for
an issue of Informator and was clearly its most prominent originator. The move has since been used by such well-known Pirc aficianados as
GMs Tiger Hillarp Persson, Jonathan Rowson, and Ruslan Ponomariov and,
like other versions of the Hippopotamus, is currently quite fashionable.
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