Wojo's Weapons - Winning with White vol.1 - the Catalan

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 way. This book is your tool to building a world-class repertoire and to achieving positional mastery.

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. This is his first book for Mongoose Press.

CONTENT:

006 Bibliography

007 Introduction: The ``Wojo System``

011 Part I: The Closed Catalan

012 Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Closed Catalan

047 Chapter 2: The Closed Catalan with 4...Bb4+

070 Chapter 3: Assembling the Repertoire

077 Part II: The Open Catalan

078 Chapter 4: The Delayed Open Catalan with 7.Ne5!? Nc6

110 Chapter 5: The Delayed Open Catalan with 7.Ne5!? c5 (and others)

121 Chapter 6: The Early Open Catalan with 5...Nc6

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

185 Chapter 8: The Early Open Catalan with 5...a6 6.Ne5 Bb4+

193 Chapter 9: The Early Open Catalan with 5...a6 6.Ne5 c5

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

231 Chapter 11: The Early Open Catalan - Others (5...Bb4+, 5...Nbd7, 5...Bd7)

253 Part III: The Slav Defense

254 Chapter 12: The Slav Defense with 4.Qc2 dxc4

281 Chapter 13: The Slav Defense with 4.Qc2 g6

297 Chapter 14: Semi-Slav Hybrids with 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 c6

305 Part IV: Black`s Other Defenses

306 Chapter 15: The Queen`s Gambit Accepted

332 Chapter 16: The Tarrasch

360 Chapter 17: Systems with 2...Bf5

373 Chapter 18: The Chigorin

387 Chapter 19: The Austrian Defense

• Casa editrice Mongoose Press
• Code 6065
• Anno 2010
• Pagine p. 408
• Isbn 9780979148200