Richard Reti

Was Richard Reti a Slovak? After all, he was born in Pezinok (Slovakia) and played for the Czechoslovakian chess team when it became a country. My question would be, if he was not a Slovak then why would he play for Czechoslovakia but not for Hungary when Czechoslovakia became a country? After all, Hungary was still a country at that time (even when Czechoslovakia became a country). So was Richard Reti a Slovak or a Hungarian? I believe he is a Slovak but you can bring all your thought to the table.

I dunno about his nationality but he wrote two of the best chess books of all time.  Modern ideas in chess and Masters of the chessboard

 @HPisti read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarization

You did not even answer my question which gives me the assumption that your claim is insufficient. Richard is also a Slovakian name:

https://www.behindthename.com/names/usage/slovak

And Reti was from his ancestors which also came from Germany. The idea is when Czechoslovakia was still not a country but Hungary, He played for the Hungarian Team. When Czechoslovakia became a country, he played for the Czechoslovakian team. If he was a Hungarian, why would he play for the Czechoslovakian team instead of the Hungarian Team? After all, the Hungarian Team was still existent.

Here I used Google Translate for you to understand it in Hungarian:

Az ötlet az, hogy Csehszlovákia még mindig nem ország, hanem Magyarország, a Magyar Csapatért játszott. Amikor Csehszlovákia országsá vált, a csehszlovák csapat számára játszott. Ha magyar volt, miért játszana a csehszlovák csapat helyett a magyar csapat helyett? Végül is a magyar csapat még mindig létezett.

Yes I have read them both and yes they are some of the few chess books I have read more than once.  I have the old descriptive notation I think they might have been reprinted.

I came across Ben Finegold video recently on youtube where in description they call Réti the Czech Legend which seems to be inaccurate. Because firstly Réti was born in Austria-Hungary, now Pezinok in Slovakia. So it would be safe to assume he was either Hungarian or Slovak but then there's the next thing which is that his fathers' name was Samuel which is mostly used as the Slavic variant of the originally hebrew name. Anyway i consider anyone who was born and raised on the slovak soil to be slovakian so...