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Richard Réti
Who
Richard Réti · Sports
What
Chess grandmaster and hypermodern theorist
When
1889, Pezinok, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) — 1929, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Where
Austria-Hungary · Czechoslovakia
Biography
Richard Réti is recognized among Jewish contributors to Sports — Chess grandmaster and hypermodern theorist
How & why
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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chess
Contributions & Sources
Chess grandmaster and hypermodern theorist
1889
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chess
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