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Richard Reti was a renowned chess player born on May 28, 1889, and died on June 6, 1929. He was highly respected in the chess community for his innovative opening theories and tactics.

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“In open positions the safety of the King should be the first consideration.”

Should Firsts Position Kings Safety Consideration

Author:Richard Reti

“A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.”

Foundation Chess Combination

Author:Richard Reti

“Chess was Capablanca's mother tongue.”

Mother Tongue Chess Mother Tongue Capablanca

Author:Richard Reti

“The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.”

People Persons Soul Play Whole Individual Given Brain Imagine Masters Majority Clubs Chess Smoke Atmosphere Tension Nerves Given Up Cafes One Sided

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“Chess is a fighting game which is purely intellectual and includes chance.”

Fighting Games Chance Intellectual Chess Chess Game

Author:Richard Reti

“It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position”

School Law Principles Modern Position Theory Treats Aim Chess Inherent

Author:Richard Reti

“The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations.”

Games Lines Decision Chess Combination Schemes

Author:Richard Reti

“Most chess players know, thanks to the study of master games, that two bishops are stronger than two knights or than bishop and knight, though very few know the reason for this advantage and how to turn it to account.”

Knows Two Reason Turns Games Study Player Masters Advantage Accounts Stronger Chess Thanks Knights Bishops Chess Players

Author:Richard Reti

“It is a profound mistake to imagine mistake to imagine that the art of combination depends only on natural talent, and that it cannot be learned. Every player knows that all (or almost all) combinations arise from a recollection of familiar elements.”

Knows Art Natural Mistake Imagine Player Talent Depends Elements Profound Chess Arise Familiar Combination Imagine That Recollection Natural Talent

Author:Richard Reti

“The pleasure to be derived from a chess combination lie in the feeling that a human mind is behind the game, dominating the inanimate pieces ... and giving them breath of life.”

Giving Mind Humans Feelings Lying Games Pleasure Behinds Pieces Breaths Chess Combination Human Mind Dominating

Author:Richard Reti

“No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.”

Chess Ease Elegant Endgame Capablanca

Author:Richard Reti

“We perceive after a careful consideration of the evolution of the chess mind that such evolution has gone on, in general, in a way quite similar to that in which it goes on with the individual chess player, only with the latter more rapidly.”

Way Mind Individual Gone Player Goes On Evolution Careful Chess Perceive Consideration Latter Chess Players

Author:Richard Reti

“A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game”

“Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite truthfully, 'as a rule not a single one'”

Moving Asks Lovers Chess Combination Ask Me

Author:Richard Reti

“The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.”

Lying Fronts Essentials Chess Squares Isolated Disadvantages Pawns

Author:Richard Reti

“It is a delight to watch a young and gifted chess player. To him have come no sinister experiences; to him continual carping care is foreign. Therefore he loves the attack and the bold sacrifice; for theirin lies the shortest way to his ultimate objective.”

Way Care Young Lying Watches Player Sacrifice Ultimate Delight Chess Objectives Gifted Youngsters Sinister Chess Players

Author:Richard Reti

About the Author

Born: May 28, 1889
Died: June 6, 1929
Known for: Chess Player
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