Dutch Defense: Hopton Attack
Kingside attack with f5. Ambitious.
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Sequence
1.d4f52.Bg5
About this opening
The Hopton Attack (1.d4 f5 2.Bg5) is a popular, incisive anti-Dutch: by developing the bishop to g5, White hampers ...Nf6 and poses immediate questions to Black's structure, often threatening Bxf6 to damage the pawns. Black must react precisely with ...h6 or ...g6. It is a practical, combative weapon that takes the Dutch out of its beaten paths on move two.