Wojo's Weapons: Winning With White

by Jonathan Hilton, Dean Ippolito

Overview

The Grünfeld is one of the most topical openings in modern chess practice. Many club players fear it, and top GMs often struggle to get an advantage when facing it as White. But is it really a theoretically sound defense? In this third and final volume of the acclaimed Wojo’s Weapons series, IM Dean Ippolito and NM Jonathan Hilton claim to have found a sure route to an advantage against this opening. Building on the repertoire of the late GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, the authors reveal the fruits of a combined 35 years of Grünfeld analysis in the first 200 pages. Hilton, himself a Grünfeld player, admits that Ippolito’s pet variation with the surprising 10.Qc2!? sets Black nearly insolvable problems in the open lines. Much more than a Grünfeld monograph, however, Wojo’s Weapons III provides in-depth coverage of other pesky openings such as the Dutch, the Old Indian, and the Hedgehog, arming you with the knowledge needed to turn the tables on your opponent and take him out of his comfort zone. No matter what openings they play, chessplayers at any skill level can use Ippolito and Hilton’s full-game coverage in Wojo’s Weapons III as a series of practical lessons in strategic chess. This ambitious repertoire project for White, which started with the 2009 release of the first volume of Wojo’s Weapons, is now complete.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936277551
Publisher:	Mongoose Press
Publication date:	09/15/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	404
File size:	44 MB
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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