Richard Réti

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Richard Réti
Ostrauer Morgenzeitung
4 December 1921
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White to play and draw

One of the most famous chess studies ever composed. It seems impossible to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king. The idea of the solution is to advance to both pawns at the same time using specific properties of the chess geometry. 1. Kg7! h4 2. Kf6 Kb6 (or 2. ... h3 3. Ke7 and the white king can support its own pawn) 3. Ke5!! (and now the white king comes just in time to the white pawn, or catches the black one) 3. ... h3 4. Kd6 and draws.

Richard Réti (28 May, 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) – 6 June, 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, chess author, and chess problemist. He was born in Pezinok which at the time was in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary. His older brother Rudolph Réti was a noted composer and pianist[1].

One of the top players in the world during the 1910s and 1920s, he began his career as a fiercely combinative classical player, favoring openings such as the King's Gambit (1. e4 e5 2. f4). However, after the end of the First World War, his playing style underwent a radical change, and he became one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism, along with Aron Nimzowitsch and others. Indeed, with the notable exception of Nimzowitsch's acclaimed book My System, he is considered to be the movement's foremost literary contributor. The Réti Opening (1. Nf3 d5 2. c4), with which he famously defeated the world champion José Raúl Capablanca in New York in 1924 — Capablanca's first defeat for eight years, the only one to Reti, and the first since becoming World Champion — is named after him. He was also a notable composer of endgame studies.

In 1925 Reti set, and for a time held, the world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously. He won 21 of these, drew 6, and only lost 2.

His writings have also become "classics" in the chess world. New Ideas in Chess (1922) and Masters of the Chess Board (1930) are still studied today.

Reti died on June 6, 1929 in Prague of scarlet fever.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Winter, Edward (2003). A Chess Omnibus. Russell Enterprises. ISBN 1-888690-17-8. 

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