Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White

by Dean Ippolito, Jonathan Hilton

Overview

IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton team up again to continue their coverage of the late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz's winning repertoire with the White pieces, designed to grind down weaker players while challenging his peers. In this second volume, Ippolito and Hilton examine Wojo's handling of the popular King's Indian Defense, focusing on the positional Fianchetto Variation. Over the course of 78 fully annotated complete games, the authors examine Black's various plans, explain the key ideas, offer original analysis, and show the way for White to minimize counterplay and nurse his natural opening edge through to victory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936277230
Publisher:	Mongoose Press
Publication date:	05/16/2011
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

International Master Dean Ippolito, a 10-time All-America Team member and winner of 13 national championship tournaments, has more than twenty years’ experience playing Wojtkiewicz’s systems. The author of two other books, Dean operates a successful chess teaching company in New Jersey.

National Master Jonathan Hilton is an award-winning freelance journalist. His 2006 Chess Life Online series, “How Wojo Won,” was praised for its accessibility to club players. Jonathan has relied on the Polish-American star’s repertoire with the white pieces for the better part of a decade.

Table of Contents

Bibliography 6

Introduction 7

Part I The Open Fianchetto Grünfeld

Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Fianchetto Grünfeld: Wojo's Dynamic System with 11.$$g5 12

Chapter 2 The Fianchetto Grünfeld, Main Line with 10.$$c2!? 23

Chapter 3 The Open Grünfeld with 7…c5 44

Chapter 4 Black Strengthens White's Center by Taking on c3 66

Chapter 5 7…c6 and Black's Other Tries 78

Part II Black's Solid Grünfeld with…c7-c6

Chapter 6 Black Bolsters the Center with…e7-e6 94

Chapter 7 Black Takes with 7…dxc4, Struggling for Active Piece Play 105

Chapter 8 Black Grovels with 7…$$b6 129

Chapter 9 Odds and Ends: Black Moves His a-Pawn 160

Part III The English Opening

Chapter 10 The Maróczy Bind 178

Chapter 11 The Half-Maróczy Bind 199

Chapter 12 Black Plays for…e7-e6 and…d7-d5 235

Chapter 13 Queen's Indians, Hedgehogs, and the Rubinstein Variation 262

Part IV The Dutch Defense

Chapter 14 The Leningrad Dutch 294

Chapter 15 The Stonewall Dutch 311

Chapter 16 Other Dutch Defenses 327

Part V Miscellaneous Defenses

Chapter 17 The Old Indian 340

Chapter 18 Other Odds and Ends with…d7-d6 and…e7-e5 352

Chapter 19 Other Tricky Systems 368

Index of Recommended Lines 391

Index of Players 401