Jan-Willem Te Kolste vs Richard Reti (1925)

Jan-Willem Te Kolste vs Richard Reti
Baden Baden (1925) · Alekhine Defense: Saemisch Attack (B02) · 0-1

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Given 4 times; par: 94 [what's this?]

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Mar-10-04		Calli: Reti actually wrote that white was theoretically lost after 4.dxc3 (instead of bxc3). Em Lasker pointed out, however, that Reti's analysis of 29.a3! was faulty and, while dxc3 was not the best, it was 29.Re3? that lost the game. Tough to sneak one past the old master!

Mar-10-04		Benjamin Lau: Reti has always been weird in the opening. He made some valid points like how pieces could exert significant influence over the center, but he also overstated his case a lot, like when he said that the Caro Kann refuted 1. e4.

Mar-10-04		Calli: Yep. Reti goes on for about a column of text about the game and that's before the first move! And no, I am not typing that intro in here :-o

Mar-10-04		TrueFiendish: Ben Lau: "An accurate middle-ground can be found only by the judicious weighing up of extremes." TrueFiendish 2004 ;-)

Mar-10-04		Benjamin Lau: Lol. Here's an amusing quote from Reti (the one I mentioned earlier): "the reply 1...e5 is a mistaken one... ...it can be established that there are two defences against 1 e4 which make it absolutely impossible for the first player to obtain any initiative, and which give Black such an even game, without any difficulties at all, that it has becom eunwise in practical play to open with 1 e4, since these defences are known. They are the Caro Kann Defence and 1 e4 e6 2 d4 e5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 dxe4." Hilarious, who would take this sort of stuff seriously today?

Mar-10-04		TrueFiendish: "absolutely impossible for the first player to obtain any initiative"--not even by having the first move, Richard? "...without any difficulties at all"? None? Not one? He sure was a radical...

Mar-10-04		Benjamin Lau: Exactly, it's all the more amusing because Reti himself still played 1...e5 mainly!

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