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#28: The 14 Rules of Hedgehog Club

#11
I skipped the game to read fast about the rules.. Well, this club seems like an interesting starting point, besides a few others I might have already spent some time in my own naive (from opening monster knowledge in any depth). I was wondering where i might start exploring the monster from its pawn structures first. Thanks for suggesting one. I know where to go back to (this blog to really read it with some experience and questions at hand... I don't like to ingest unsollicited rules that I can't induce, deduce or relate to from experience, or reasoning with local rules, or those other rules I might have accepted and digested, but I liked the way it was presented. Also rules here, seems to be tongue in cheeks, formatted for some expectations.

I am not saying that these might not be things I would relate to later. They are interesting points to look for during the experience, with the pawn formation presented at first. The kind of notions I would like to relate to, in navigating around such objective in the fog of chess (long term and sideways too, about its long term too). The moves to get there, I will find out. might even gather some names from frequent peripheral vision of it in the opening explorer.
#12
@helloplaychess said in #5:
> there is a typo
>
> Fourth rule: you will be brutally beaten.
> In the Hedgehog, you give up space1. And on the way to understanding how to survive
>
> 'space1'

Yes in Lichess blog post the superscript 1 doesn't work (the note is at the bottom of the post), thought it might still pass but maybe I'll just remove it...
#13
@TheSoulTaker1 said in #3:
> sir question if we play the pawn above the sixth square on move one will we still be in the club?

Good point! You pretty much have to play ...c5 before White plays d4 to get the structure, I might see if I can put that in some edit :)
#14
@miskobgd said in #6:
> It would be great if you could have included the different move orders to reach the hedgehog. If I am not wrong it can also happen via the Nimzo (while we only had the Kan and the English in the post). But it is the great lesson anyway.

Good idea, will see if I can add a study for it!
#15
@peppie23 said in #7:
> Great article and clearly a lot of efforts were put into.
>
> It reminds me of my 2 articles about Dutch steps in the English opening.
> http://schaken-brabo.blogspot.com/2013/02/hollandse-stappen-in-de-engelse-opening.html
> http://chess-brabo.blogspot.com/2019/02/dutch-steps-in-english-opening-part-2.html
>
> Also in those I talked about how difficult it can be to master an opening.
>
> Personally I try to not focus too much on openings in my blog as there is no way to compete against books/ dvds where there is (almost) no limitation of space. So if I say something about openings then it must be combined with a funny/ interesting story. The Hedgehogclub is definitely a brilliant idea.

Thank you peppie23! It's nice how you have such a library of posts that any post will remind you of one (or more) of your own. I like your thoughts on writing about openings. I tried to do new things in this one, wasn't 100% happy with it but it was the best I could do for now, maybe I will rework when I am a better writer.
#16
@ZugAddict said in #8:
> This is such a great article and about such an obnoxious opening :)

Obnoxious is one way to call it. You must be a Hedgehog hunter :-D
#18
@datajunkie said in #15:
>I tried to do new things in this one, wasn't 100% happy with it but it was the best I could do for now, maybe I will rework when I am a better writer.
Personally I very rarely rework any old articles. Sometimes they are outdated but so be it as they are a testimony of that time. I prefer to write a new article (e.g. part 2 ...) instead.

Also old analysis I normally don't touch. I am making analysis since 1990 so it would anyway be impossible to keep everything up to date. Nevertheless since a couple of years I do make regressiontests of some openings see http://chess-brabo.blogspot.com/2020/09/regression-tests.html