Hippopotamus In Reverse Catastrophe

 South African  chess player btropic played  soooo poorly with the White pieces that Black's seventh move Bf2 check leads to forced win.

In the diagrammed position, White his timidly set up what appears to be a Hippopotamus defense in reverse. Note that White's monarch is surrounded by its own forces in Epaulette fashion. He was duly punished with the attraction sacrifice Bishop capture King Bishop 2 pawn check in the old English descriptive notation. 

After Ng4 check, the a1 rook in the corner gets ingested and gets reactivated via c2 square. Would like to know if Alessio De Santis has ever essayed the Reverse Hippo and how he fared. 

Also why would a chess player play such a gutless, mindless opening with White?

Thomas Turtle: Bullet Chess Addict

 One Thomas Turtle has an extreme fondness for 1 minute bullet/blitz chess. As you can see from his finger notes, he has played close to 130,000 lightning chess games at the internet chess club. 

His passive play, as seen in the diagrammed position, gives him close to a lost position a mere 7 moves into the game! He placed his Horse on the e8 square and them played h6 with the Black pieces. This happened in a 3 minute game which I doubt he meant to play. I mean 3 minutes is an eternity for a bullet chess addict.  

It became obvious TommyTurtle played this sequence of insipid and thoughtless moves just to keep from losing before his 60 seconds of precious time expired! 

He obviously loves the Royal game and hates whining name calling players who are bad sports when they lose to the turtle in blitz chess. The friend of Sally Acorn in the city of Mobotropolis is a very weak player, but a good guy who just wants play without all the unnecessary drama.

Passivity

The germs of defeat are spawned in passive play. Part of that is plagiarized and part is mine. A character at ICC named KingZinski(Polish I think) loves bending over buttocks full exposed and playing pusillanimous double fianchetto systems. 

In the position you see below black placed his horses at d7,e7. Did not place a pawn on the fourth rank even though White did not storm center with his pawns. The Modern and Pirc defenses are designed to punch back or counter strike against massive center and flank pawn surges by the first player. 

At least Indian player AjitChandra knows his play is overly passive and wants to correct it. The book by Grandmaster Rafael Leitão is a meritorious resource on patiently punishing players who play afraid and unwilling to take chances. Rafael Leitão is a weaker GM since any honest strong player knows games cannot be won out of the opening. Rafael is just trying to sell his book to the ignorant USCF players rated below 1500. 

Bogdan's textbook CRUSH OF Petrak Robert  is an example of passive play being a poor choice.