The Réti & its applicable features for Beginners

Along with d4, the Réti opening which starts the game with the unusual Nf3 is quickly becoming one of my favorite openings to play as white for its potential to achieve a nice positional advantage earlier in the opening.

As you can see, I play the Réti Gambit, my favorite version of the Réti to play because it’s not really a gambit, rather very easy to quickly win back the pawn. Actually, I hope my opponent accepts the gambit because after d4, e4, I control the center, my opponents queen central pawn is about to be lost after the file for my bishop opens, then I take with the bishop to take full control of the center. It’s very nice to play.

However, as you see my opponent did not accept the gambit which led to a series of book moves (always pog) and already a missed win for me as my opponent didn’t know enough Réti theory (as you can see, a winning opportunity already offered if your opponent doesn’t know the theory - yet I didn’t know about this idea until this game)

Then, as you can see, I blundered my queen LUL which is easy to do in such a closed position because it’s easy not to see all the attackers. I suppose this is why they say don’t bring your queen out too earlier, because it opens it up to a lot of different attackers.

then, I was able to trap his queen and win it back.

it’s important to note I had almost +3 according to the engine before my queen blunder. So the Réti gambit proved to be a very engine friendly opening, and one I really like the positions I get out of it.

also most people don’t know how to respond to nf3.

This was my 9th straight win today in rapid, and I should probably play more because @garbagem8 is almost at 1300 and I want the trophy from @ninjaswat lol but it’s time for dinner then family time, so I’m gonna call it a day playing wise. But feel free to discuss applicable uses of the Réti, it seems to be a very simple and beginner friendly opening that gets white a great position, and most of the theory is relatively natural, or at least easy to learn 

reti roti lol

my lunch was a roti

Bruh when did you learn like 5 openings with white. I’m still using the Italian :/

i know 40 openings..... with white and 24 with black

Italian is slowwwww to win in. I play different ones instead because of that.

I’m generally a lot better with black and I guess I found my reason why…

I play the Sicilian because it's the only opening with black I have studied for over 15 minutes. And it works a decent amount of the time 

in the closed sicilian you play passive and wait for self destruction, and for the open you... idk play regular chess I guess. But I'm probably wrong since I don't study openings that in-depth

eww reti

you counted O_O

I only know like 10 on each side

like I know what 40 openings do and the basic idea. I know 7 with dense there for black and 12 for white

this is literally transposition into slav

ay hold on when did I say that

I hate the Queen's gambit lmao