Richard Réti
Richard Réti · Sports
Chess grandmaster and hypermodern theorist
1889, Pezinok, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) — 1929, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Austria-Hungary · Czechoslovakia
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Réti was a leading chess grandmaster and a founder of the hypermodern school, showing that the centre could be controlled from a distance rather than occupied by pawns; the Réti Opening bears his name. He was also a celebrated composer of endgame studies and a blindfold-play record holder. He was born into a Jewish family in what is now Slovakia.
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Chess grandmaster and hypermodern theorist
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chess
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