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euripides: Actually after 9...a5 the lines are quite interesting. Black is fine after 10 a3 a4 or 10 Nc5 e5 11 Nxe5 Qd6 11 Nxb7 Qxe5. White should play 10 Nbxd4 and now Black can try 10..a4, consolidating the pawns and threatening a3. So 11 Rb1, making space for the Bishop on a1, and Black can try 11.. Nc6. White can play quietly here with 12 Nc2 or try 12 Nxc6 bxc6. Here the natural 13 Ne5 runs into trouble with 13... Qc7 when 14 Nxc6 Bb7 or 14 Bxc6 Ra5 or 14 c5 Be6 all look good for Black. But by 13 Nd4 ! White comes out on top. Black can sacrifice the exchange with 13...Qc7 (possibly 13...e5) 14 Bxc6 (now ...Ra5 doesn't hit the Knight- that's why Nd4 was better than Ne5) Bh3 15 Bxa8 Rxa8 but White should have enough: or settle for a pawn deficit with 14...Bb7 15 Bxb7 Qxb7 16 0-0.
Black could try to keep the White bishop unprotected and exploit the pin on the knoght with 10...Nc6 but I don't think this will work either.
None of the annotators I have seen (Euwe, Golombek,Pachman or Kmoch) look at 9...a5,but given how horrible Black's position becomes in the game it's worth trying something sharp.
drukenknight: going back to what euri. said about move 40. Are you saying that 40...Rxb6 will lose for black? Because after 41 pxR Kd7 white will play 42 e5? I think the black K can still get over the stop the e pawn.
chessfected: What's quite amusing is the sequence of moves 24. Nc6, 25. Re3 and 26. Qe5 when white's till then seemingly far flung pieces gang up on the e7 pawn. Perhaps an exchange sacrifice on c6 might have been worthwhile with 25...Rxc6 26. dc Qxc6+ Black might just be able to build a fortress with his knight on c5. The White knight on c6 is too much of a pain to be allowed to stay. Any thoughts?
Averageguy: The move 34.c5 amazed and suprised me on first sight, but it is a completely logical intermezzo, pushing the pawn a bit furthur up in anticipation for the coming endgame. The moves 34.c5 and 36.Qxc7 have impressed on me how intermezzo's can be used for strategical purposes, as well as for tactical means.
Dim Weasel: The transposition interpretations of these systems never cease to amaze me.
I think this game is sometimes presented as model game of "Reti Opening" (A09), but it is not ECO-classified as such probably because it does not start 1.Nf6 d5 2.c4
Score sheet shows A07 "KIA" probably because it starts 1.Nf6 d5 2. g3
As a system it definetely looks more like a Reti because of White's double fianchetto, rook positioning and 15.Qa1. It does not look much like a typical KIA setup to me.
But most amazing think is that <CG> database classifies this as A11 "English. Caro-Kann Defensive System" which is supposed to start 1.c4 c6, but the 'C-K move' c6 is not played in this game ???
Peligroso Patzer: What a fascinating game! The combination of the "Reversed Benko" middlegame and the technical ending provides a two-fold fascination.
With regard to 40. Rb6, I am sure it was very easy for players of this calibre to see that the Rook trade wins for White, and I was eventually able to work it out for myself. In analyzing 40. ... Rxb6 41. axb6 Kd7 (or 41. ... Kd8; in either case White will eventually get in a check to gain a tempo), I first looked at next pushing the central pawn that is already a passer (42. d5). This would actually not only throw away the win, it would give Black the full point (42. ... a4 ). It is essential (as another kibitzer has pointed out) to the winning plan for White to create a second passer 3 files away from the b6-pawn by playing 42. e5! As I said, for a Reti or a Rubinstein, this is no doubt very easy to see, but it took me a couple of minutes, and I find this technical aspect of this game very pleasing aesthetically.
ex0duz: Syracrophy, obviously you're correct-amundo my friend ;)
Also, does 18. Rxa7 lose a piece to Bxf3? anyone have the continuation(i'm too lazy to calculate it when its not that interesting of a variation, but it does make me a tiny bit curious), does white lose his knight, rook, bishop or queen? hehe thanks friends.
Llera: Re: "Soltari: What happens when 33...Nxd3??"
Well, then it should go probably like this: (34)Q*c7, R*c7 (35)e*d3, and Black's Rooks have no files or columns, they are enclosed. If (35)...a4, then maybe (36) Ra1 is good, or maybe (36)Rb4 so White shouldn't leave the b-file. But I'm not sure if this would work instead: 36.c5 Rdc6, 37.dc6 Rc6, 38.Rb7+ Ke8, 39. d4, Ra6, 40. Rb6, etc, like in the main line but with an extra movement [(35...)a4] for Black. I think it finishes with the two pawns becoming Queens, so it should be draw.
kevin86: The black lone pawn moved fast,but was quickly cut off by the white rook. The white pawns moved slower,but three can't be stopped as easily as one.
Llera: Re: "Phony Benoni: I thought these hypermodern players didn't bother using their center pawns." Precisely:(Taken from: http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache.) "Hypermodern openings are what we call just about anything that does not try to occupy the center with pawns (which is what we usually call classical play). They even encourage the other side to take over the center with a big pawn mass that can then be attacked from the sides by pieces and wing pawns. "
lvlaple: Awesome pun, this was one of those games with a total gridlock of queens and rooks that I always lose, and have nothing but respect for those who can play them.
Phony Benoni: <Liera> Sorry--I should have made it clearer that I was making a joke based on the final position, where Reti was indeed using his center pawns quite effectively.
IMlday: When this was played in 1923 the theoretical disputes between Classicism and Hypermodernism were in full bloom. Chess theory evolved parallel to new movements in art, dance, music etc. Reti's Opening appeared weird to supreme classicist Rubinstein: "The stupid double hole variation" he supposedly called it. 'Holes' were a Steinitz term for squares that couldn't be covered by pawns, e.g. 1.g3 makes a 'hole' at h3. The formation favoured by Staunton with c4, e3, g3 also makes holes at f3 and d3. Nowadays we can look back and see that both Reti's fianchetto openings and Rubinstein's Semi-slav 'Meran' stuff have passed the 'test of time'. Such a fertile period for 'new' chess as 1922-24 provides rich study material for a deep understanding of chess. Probably elo 1700-2100 would learn the most imo. A file of the time period, e.g, 1922, can be had easily by filling in the year line in the CG search but nothing else.
parisattack: <syracrophy: ...A charming victory for the father of the hipermodernism.>
One of the great hypermodern victories. I love the center pawns held back, rolling through and winning the game for White. Having the center pawns 'in reserve' is definately a '+' of many hypermodern openings.
mannetje: A wonderfull clean game, in the Reti opening by Reti himself. Kasparov annotated this game, he thinks Reti didn't make a single mistake. That was allmost unique back in '23.
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Richard Reti vs Akiba Rubinstein
"Reti to Roll" (game of the day Sep-25-06)
Karlsbad 1923 · Formation: King's Indian Attack (A07) · 1-0
Black could try to keep the White bishop unprotected and exploit the pin on the knoght with 10...Nc6 but I don't think this will work either.
None of the annotators I have seen (Euwe, Golombek,Pachman or Kmoch) look at 9...a5,but given how horrible Black's position becomes in the game it's worth trying something sharp.
Im just really not sure what you're saying there.
I think this game is sometimes presented as model game of "Reti Opening" (A09), but it is not ECO-classified as such probably because it does not start 1.Nf6 d5 2.c4
Score sheet shows A07 "KIA" probably because it starts 1.Nf6 d5 2. g3
As a system it definetely looks more like a Reti because of White's double fianchetto, rook positioning and 15.Qa1. It does not look much like a typical KIA setup to me.
But most amazing think is that <CG> database classifies this as A11 "English. Caro-Kann Defensive System" which is supposed to start 1.c4 c6, but the 'C-K move' c6 is not played in this game ???
Pls someone explain
A charming victory for the father of the hipermodernism. Another great victory with hipermodern ideas is the great Reti vs Capablanca, 1924
With regard to 40. Rb6, I am sure it was very easy for players of this calibre to see that the Rook trade wins for White, and I was eventually able to work it out for myself. In analyzing 40. ... Rxb6 41. axb6 Kd7 (or 41. ... Kd8; in either case White will eventually get in a check to gain a tempo), I first looked at next pushing the central pawn that is already a passer (42. d5). This would actually not only throw away the win, it would give Black the full point (42. ... a4
). It is essential (as another kibitzer has pointed out) to the winning plan for White to create a second passer 3 files away from the b6-pawn by playing 42. e5! 
As I said, for a Reti or a Rubinstein, this is no doubt very easy to see, but it took me a couple of minutes, and I find this technical aspect of this game very pleasing aesthetically.
Also, does 18. Rxa7 lose a piece to Bxf3? anyone have the continuation(i'm too lazy to calculate it when its not that interesting of a variation, but it does make me a tiny bit curious), does white lose his knight, rook, bishop or queen? hehe thanks friends.
Well, then it should go probably like this: (34)Q*c7, R*c7 (35)e*d3, and Black's Rooks have no files or columns, they are enclosed. If (35)...a4, then maybe (36) Ra1 is good, or maybe (36)Rb4 so White shouldn't leave the b-file. But I'm not sure if this would work instead: 36.c5 Rdc6, 37.dc6 Rc6, 38.Rb7+ Ke8, 39. d4, Ra6, 40. Rb6, etc, like in the main line but with an extra movement [(35...)a4] for Black. I think it finishes with the two pawns becoming Queens, so it should be draw.
Reti,set,go!
can be had easily by filling in the year line in the CG search but nothing else.
One of the great hypermodern victories. I love the center pawns held back, rolling through and winning the game for White. Having the center pawns 'in reserve' is definately a '+' of many hypermodern openings.
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