- Unknown Binding: 181 pages
- Publisher: G. Bell and sons, ltd (1943)
- Language English
- ASIN: B0007J8JNY
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
Modern Ideas in Chess
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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!
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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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