Modern Ideas in Chess
The road along which chess has travelled
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| By Reti, Richard |
| ISBN 1843820153 |
| SERIES Hardinge Simpole Chess Classics |
| Paperback 200 pages |
| Subject [Chess
] [Reti
] [Alekhine
] [Capablanca
] [Nimzowitsch
] [Bogolyubov
] |
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| Published October 2002 |
| UK Price £15.95 |
| US Price $25.95 |
Richard Reti - one of the leaders of the hypermodern school of chess which rose to prominence in the 1920's - 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. Reti was an adept at blindfold chess in which he rivalled Alekhine in the number and strength of his opposition,a lucidly brilliant composer of endgame studies but above all an artist fascinated by the creative forces and energies lying beneath the surface of the chessboard battle. Golombek wrote " Reti became a great and vital writer on the game --for the first time in the history of books on chess a writer capable of a genuine historical survey of the evolution of chess ideas and also of a colourful and poetic picture of the state of contemporary chess had made his appearance." As Reti himself wrote "in the idea of chess and the development of the chess mind we have a picture of the intellectual struggle of mankind." |
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