⚪️#579 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Hector,J
🔸Koneru,H
🔸Wijk aan Zee, 2003

10.Qe3!
QUESTION: Why the queen move? Castling looks more normal. ANSWER: With the text, White increases his control over the e5-square and prevents Black from playing the freeing move ...e6-e5. Instead, after 10.0-0-0 e5 11.Qe3 exd4 12.Rxd4 Nc5 13.Rf4 Qh6 Black had no problems in K.Shirazi-M. Quinteros, Jakarta 1978.
10...c5 11.0-0-0 b6 12.Bb5!+/-
Once Black can put his bishop on b7 he will equalize. 12.Bb5 prevents this as 12...a6 13.Bxd7 Bxd7 14.dxc5 wins a pawn.

⚪️#580 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Short,N
🔸Giri,A
🔸Amsterdam, 2010

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 Nbd7 4.e3 e6 5.Qf3 c5 6.0-0-0 a6 7.Nge2 Qa5 8.Bxf6 Nxf6
9.g4!
ANSWER: This is the point of 8 Bxf6. White gets in g4-g5 a move quicker. That said, although White was successful in this game, I do not recommend this plan at all.
9...b5 10.g5 Nd7 11.Nxf4 cxd4 12.Ncxd5 exd5 13.Qxd5 Ra7 14.Bh3 with a complicated game.

⚫️#581 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gashimov,V
🔸Jonkman,H
🔸Antalya, 2004

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 581
public poll

A: g5 – 5
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 63%
@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, Zhenrui, Matthew

C: a6 – 2
👍👍👍 25%
Ahmad, George

B: Ne7 – 1
👍 13%
@RichardPeng

👥 8 people voted so far.

⚪️#582 (Strategy-White to Move)
🔸Pazos Gambarrotti,P
🔸Murugan,K
🔸Moscow Olympiad, 1994

Unity Chess Multiple Choice 582
public poll

C: Re5 – 6
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 75%
@SteveWongso, Drew, @roshan_sethuraman, @RichardPeng, Rachel, Zhenrui

A: N×e6 – 2
👍👍 25%
George, Matthew

B: Nf3
▫️ 0%

👥 8 people voted so far.

Two World Champions - Tigran Petrosian & Mikhail Tal.
8th USSR People's Spartakiad, in Moscow, during July 1983.

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The young Vasily Smyslov, in play v. Bondarevsky in the 5th round (USSR Championship 1940-September 9th) - a famous rook endgame..

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"In my opinion, the style of a player should not be formed under the influence of any single great master."

🔸 Vasily Smyslov

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🏁✅ A little bit about chess history.
18 years old Magnus Carlsen won Judit Polgar.

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🛄 #Reti_chess_quotes_003

🔹 Richard Réti
🔹 Chess composer
🔹 Austro-Hungarianchess grandmaster

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🛄 #about_Reti

🔹 Richard Réti
🔹 Chess composer
🔹 Austro-Hungarianchess grandmaster

🔰 Richard Selig Réti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess.

Full name: Richard Selig Réti
Country: Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia
Born: 28 May 1889
Bösing, Austria-Hungary
(now Pezinok, Slovakia)
Died: 6 June 1929 (aged 40)
Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

🔰 Richard Reti was one of the top players in the world during the 1910s and 1920s, he began his career as a combinative classical player, favoring openings such as the King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4). After the end of the First World War, however, his playing style changed, and he became one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism, along with Aron Nimzowitsch and others. With the exception of Nimzowitsch's book My System, he is considered to be the movement's foremost literary contributor. He had his greatest early successes in the period 1918 through 1921, in tournaments in Kaschau (Košice; 1918), Rotterdam (1919), Amsterdam (1920), Vienna (1920), and Gothenburg (1921).

🔰In 1925 Réti set a world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously. He won 21, drew 6, and lost 2.

🔰Réti was also a notable composer of endgame studies.

♦️ A memorable game by Reti which named "Reti to Roll" in chessgames.com site!👇
▪️ Richard Reti vs Akiba Rubinstein
▪️ Karlsbad (1923), Karlsbad CSR, rd 5, May-04
▪️ Zukertort Opening: Queen Pawn Defense (A06)

♦️Review and download PGN file👇

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🔸 Richard Reti - Akiba Rubinstein, Karlsbad (1923)
🔸 PGN format

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🔸Asian Nations Cup Rapid 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Makhnev,Denis (2449)
⚫️Mousavi,Seyed Khalil (2358)
🔸0-1