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Modern Ideas in Chess [Kindle Edition]

Richard Reti
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Richard Reti was a formidable over the board grandmaster as shown by his victories at the splendid tournaments of Kaschau 1918, Gothenburg 1920 and Teplitz Schonau 1922. His victims included Capablanca, Alekhine and Nimzowitsch, while his elegant destruction of Bogolyubov deservedly won the beauty prize at New York 1924.

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Reti was clearly one of the top players in the world, defeating at least once almost every leading player of his era. He defeated Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe, Rubinstein, Bogoljubov and Tartakower. The only top player he never defeated was Emanuel Lasker. Among his noteworthy accomplishments, he won the most famous game ever played between two grandmasters. He also created the most famous and most instructive endgame study ever created. He also defeated Capablanca in a game that was the Great Cuban's first loss in more than eight years. He created new opening systems, including the Réti Opening.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 7128 KB
  • Print Length: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Russell Enterprises, Inc. (1 April 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003RCK1SY
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #209,281 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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richard reti was a strong chess grandmaster of the 1920s and the godfather of the hypermodern school of chess. here he reviews key games by great players and draws cultural conclusions which will fascinate any chess intellectuals or students of ideas.
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if you liked reti's book masters of the chess board then you will also want to read this one. reti shows how chess mirrors human thought in other areas of activity-he is especially impressive when writing about capablanca and the triumph of americanism in chess. he sees the speed and efficiency of his so called americanism as typical of the methods which will eventually become predominant in the 20th century. reti is highly thought provoking and his words could equally apply to bobby fischer who appeared four decades later . a book for the chess connoisseur and intellectual!
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Reti, who gave his name to one of the soundest yet quixotic openings in chess, wrote two masterpieces. This is the earlier, and some would say the greater ... It is a joy and a pleasure to read. Written in those almost forgotten days of 1923, it looks back to the great players of two centuries ago to trace the roots of cataclysmic ideas.

Yet "Modern Ideas" is more than simply a history book. It was the igniter of a whole new way of looking at chess. Dr Tartakower may have been the master who first coined the phrase "Hypermodern", but it was Reti, in this very book, who breathed life and thought and imagination into the movement. Nothing has not changed chess so much since.

Greater, as a piece of creative writing, than even the magnificent "My System" by Aron Nimzowitsch, which was published 2 short years later, this is a true work of literary genius.

So, buy this book, pour a glass of fine chilled white wine, and imagine that you are sitting outside a cafe in Vienna in the sort of crisp, sunny atmosphere of early spring or late Autumn of 75 years ago. Start to read, only the soulless will be disappointed.

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