• Club players looking to master an efficient, safe, and practical White repertoire will benefit from this highly readable book. The authors give full verbal explanations of each key idea, and brief recaps are provided at the end of annotated games..
• Titled players will find full, up-to-date theoretical coverage of all the lines presented. The book is packed with the authors' own novelties and little-known ideas, and analysis of the Catalan given by GM Boris Avrukh in 1.d4 is updated and improved..
• Finally, experts looking to achieve the master title will benefit most from the thorough explanations of middlegame and endgame ideas provided in the annotated games themselves. If you are looking to attain the level of positional maturity needed to become a titled player, this book is for you..
• 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..

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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.