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#28: The 14 Rules of Hedgehog Club

sir question if we play the pawn above the sixth square on move one will we still be in the club?
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.
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.
This is such a great article and about such an obnoxious opening :)
I told Officer Burgess (or the other dude) about the Hedgehog today, and his mind was blown, though not literally, of course and hopefully (not?).
That nosE from a biscuit is a deputy, my bad. They always confuse me with deputy and officer, albeit I should have known that, being that I am President Of Cyberspace (2017-2025); Chief Engineer at Neuralink; Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency; and Acting Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.

And no, Acting does not mean Pretending, for all you seventh graders out there. It means I'm doing the job for them.