Réti composed one of the most famous chess studies

Endgame study

An endgame study, or just study, is a composed chess position—that is, one that has been made up rather than one from an actual game—presented as a sort of puzzle, in which the aim of the solver is to find a way for one side to win or draw, as stipulated, against any moves the other side...

, shown in this diagram. It was published in Ostrauer

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 Morgenzeitung 4 December 1921. It seems impossible for the white king to catch the advanced black pawn, while the white pawn can be easily stopped by the black king. The idea of the solution is to move the king to advance on both pawns at the same time using specific properties of the chess geometry.

1. Kg7! h4 2. Kf6 Kb6

or 2...h3 3.Ke7 and the white king can support its own pawn

3. Ke5!!

and now the white king comes just in time to the white pawn, or catches the black one

3... h3 4. Kd6

and draws

Draw (chess)

In chess, a draw is when a game ends in a tie. It is one of the possible outcomes of a game, along with a win for White and a win for Black . Usually, in tournaments a draw is worth a half point to each player, while a win is worth one point to the victor and none to the loser.For the most part,...

Notable chess games

• Richard Réti vs Akiba Rubinstein, Karlsbad 1923, King's Indian Attack: General (A11), 1-0 A model game for Réti-type opening.
• Richard Réti vs Jose Raul Capablanca, New York 1924, English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. King's Indian Formation (A15), 1-0 The famous victory over Capablanca.

A collection of his games was published as Reti's Games of Chess, annotated by H. Golombek, republished by Dover (1974).

Publications

• Modern Ideas In Chess (1923)
• Masters Of The Chess Board (1933) ISBN 0-486-23384-7

External links

• Edward Winter
  Edward Winter (chess historian)
  Edward Winter is an English journalist, archivist, historian, collector and author about the game of chess. He writes a regular column on that subject, Chess Notes, and is also a regular columnist for ChessBase.-Chess Notes:...
  
  , The Réti Brothers
• 20 studies of Richard Reti
• Complete works of Richard Reti (Spanish)