Richard Réti (28 May, 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) – 6 June, 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian chess player, he was born in Pezinok which at the time was in Hungary.

One of the top players in the world during the 1910s and 1920s, he began his career as a fiercely combinative classical player, favouring 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 and the first since becoming World Champion — is named after him. He was also a notable composer of endgame studies. In 1925 Reti set the world record for blindfold chess with twenty-nine games played simultaneously. He won twenty-one of these, drew six and only lost two! His writings have also become 'classics' in the chess world. New Ideas in Chess (1922) and Masters of the Chessboard (1930) are still studied today.

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

Publications

• New Ideas In Chess (1922)
• Masters Of The Chess Board (1930)

External links

• Richard Reti download 247 of his games in pgn format.

1889 births | 1929 deaths | Chess players | Chess problemists | Jewish chess players | Slovak chess players | Czech chess players | Austrian chess players | Hungarian chess players

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