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. Content: 006 Bibliography
007 Introduction
011 Part I: The Classical Fianchetto King's Indian with ...Nbd7
012 Chapter 1: The Zürich 1953 Defense - Black Plays ...Nb8-d7, ...e7-e5xd4, and ...a7-a5
039 Chapter 2: White's d4-d5 Push
062 Chapter 3: The Gallagher Variation
082 Chapter 4: Black's ...b7-b5 Strike
096 Chapter 5: Putting It All Together
109 Part II: The Fianchetto King's Indian in Modern Times: Black Develops with ...Nb8-c6
110 Chapter 6: Meeting Black's ...e7-e5 with an Early c4-c5
143 Chapter 7: Meeting Black's ...e7-e5 with 9.e4
179 Chapter 8: The Panno Variation with 8.b3
214 Chapter 9: The Simagin and Spassky Variations
225 Part III: Black's Other Systems
226 Chapter 10: The Anti-Yugoslav with 6...c5 7.dxc5 dxc5 8.Ne5!?
250 Chapter 11: Black's Queen Development with 6...c6 and 7...Qa5 (The Kavalek System)
268 Chapter 12: Black Controls e4 with 6...c6 and 7...Bf5 (The Larsen System)
279 Chapter 13: Other Black Tries with ...c7-c6: 7...a6 and 7...Qb6
295 Chapter 14: Miscellaneous Tries for Black
310 Index of Recommended Lines
319 Index of Players |