I recently received an email from Garry Gifford, editor of the Unorthodox Openings Newsletter and co-author (along with Davide Rozzoni and Bill Wall) of Winning with the Krazy Kat and Old Hippo. Nowadays, Gary is doing well with the New Hippo as well as the Krazy Kat
Marty [Martin Frère Hillyer, author of Thomas Frère and the Brotherhood of Chess: A History of 19th Century Chess in New York City] and a few club guys took me to the Marshall Club in NY as a going away present (I am moving to Austin).
I played the Krazy Kat against a 2098 player. I took a drawing line, but later realized I had a forced win! [International Master] Calvin Blocker verified that for me last week... though I already knew.
I also use the Krazy Kat in round 4 to defeat a psycologist in just 18 moves.
I used a modern Hippo on Saturday to defeat Marty's Colle....
A few words about Austin, Texas, by the way: when you are in town and hungry, check out the legendary Torchy's Tacos... It's also hard not to mention that in a Christmas-time tag-team match between two of the "Kennedy Kids" (known as they made their way from Houston to Austin as "the locusts") and The Salt Lick all-you-can-eat Bar-B-Que restaurant, the visitors were held to a draw ("Pack the rest up. We'll have it for breakfast...")
