Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White, Volume 1

by Jonathan Hilton, Dean Ippolito

Overview

The late Aleksander Wojtkiewicz was one of the most feared players in the U.S. tournament circuit. Using his dynamic, Catalan-based opening repertoire, the Polish Magician won hundreds of tournaments before his untimely death in 2006. Now, Wojtkiewicz experts IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton have joined forces to produce the definitive how-to manual for learning Wojo's repertoire with White after 1.Nf3 d5. Over the course of 75 fully annotated games, the authors make Wojtkiewicz's approach easily accessible to the chess public for the first time. —Club players looking to master an efficient, safe, and practical White repertoire will benefit from the authors' full explanations of key ideas. —Titled players will find up-to-date theoretical coverage of all the lines presented, including the authors' own novelties and little-known ideas. —Experts looking to achieve the master title will benefit most from the thorough treatment of middlegame and endgame ideas. Wojo's Weapons is arranged so that you can quickly get started winning the Wojo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979148200
Publisher:	Mongoose Press
Publication date:	03/16/2010
Pages:	408
Sales rank:	745,729
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Bibliography 6

Introduction: The "Wojo System" 7

Part I The Closed Catalan 11

Chapter 1 An Introduction to the Closed Catalan 12

Chapter 2 The Closed Catalan with 4...b4+ 47

Chapter 3 Assembling the Repertoire 70

Part II The Open Catalan 77

Chapter 4 The Delayed Open Catalan with 7.e5!? c6 78

Chapter 5 The Delayed Open Catalan with 7.e5!? c5 (and others) 110

Chapter 6 The Early Open Catalan with 5...c6 121

Chapter 7 The Early Open Catalan with 5...c5 162

Chapter 8 The Early Open Catalan with 5...a6 6.e5 b4+ 185

Chapter 9 The Early Open Catalan with 5...a6 6.e5 c5 193

Chapter 10 The Early Open Catalan with 5...b5 or 5...c6 220

Chapter 11 The Early Open Catalan - Others (5...b4+, 5...bd7, 5...d7) 231

Part III The Slav Defense 253

Chapter 12 The Slav Defense with 4.c2 d×c4 254

Chapter 13 The Slav Defense with 4.c2 g6 281

Chapter 14 Semi-Slav Hybrids with 1.f3 d5 2.d4 c6 297

Part IV Black's Other Defenses 305

Chapter 15 The Queen's Gambit Accepted 306

Chapter 16 The Tarrasch 332

Chapter 17 Systems with 2...f5 360

Chapter 18 The Chigorin 373

Chapter 19 The Austrian Defense 387