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.
Far more than an opening monograph, Wojo’s Weapons 2 is a seminar in how to cash in on small advantages, which players of all strengths – even those who don’t play queen’s pawn openings – will find instructive.
About the Authors
International Master Dean Ippolito is a 10-time All-America Team member and has won 13 national championship titles, including that of 1996 National High School Champion. He has more than twenty years’ experience playing most of Wojtkiewicz’s systems from the White side. The author of two other books, Dean operates a successful chess teaching company, Dean Ippolito, LLC, in New Jersey, helping his students to win 15 national titles. He is currently working to earn the title of Grandmaster.
National Master Jonathan Hilton is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of over one hundred published articles on chess. He has a passion for Wojtkiewicz’s playing style and has relied on the Polish-American star’s repertoire with the White pieces for the better part of a decade. His acclaimed six-part “How Wojo Won” series, which premiered on Chess Life Online in 2006, was touted for its accessibility to club players. This is his first book for Mongoose Press. He is currently attending the University of Cincinnati.