Richard Réti
Czechoslovak chess player (1889–1929) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak, chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies.
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Full name | Richard Selig Réti |
Country | Czechoslovakia (after 1918) Austro-Hungarian Empire (before 1918) |
Born | (1889-05-28)28 May 1889 Bazin, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Pezinok, Slovakia) |
Died | 6 June 1929(1929-06-06) (aged 40) Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
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He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of Nimzowitsch's book My System, he is considered to be the movement's foremost literary contributor.