Richard Reti vs Max Walter (1925) Rich Over Troubled Walter

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Richard Reti vs Max Walter
"Rich Over Troubled Walter" (game of the day Jun-07-2020)
Bratislava (1925), Bratislava CSR, Aug-??
English Opening: Symmetrical. Four Knights Variation (A35) · 1-0

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Jul-25-12		Orhtej: no kibitzing yet..ahh i found this game as a hidden gold that seems no one ever saw it before..nice play by Mr. Richard Reti!

Jul-25-12		perfidious: A pretty finish, well worthy of a puzzle.

Dec-17-14		Stonehenge: According to http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi... and http://www.chessbites.com/Games.asp... black was J Walter. http://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=d... has a Walter Sr.

Oct-26-16		tpstar: 24 ... Qxa4 25. Bxe6 and the only way to prevent 26. Bf7# is the sad 25 ... Qc4, when 26. Bxc4 Rxc4 27. Bd2 leaves White up a piece. Or 25 ... Qxd1?! 26. Rxd1 and White will be up two Bishops.

Jun-16-18		MissScarlett: <Rich Over Troubled Walter>

Jun-16-18		WorstPlayerEver: SF prefers 20. Ne3 but I came up with: 20. Rad1 Qc7 21. Bg4 Nxc4 22. Nd6+ exd6 23. Bxe6 Qc5+ 24. Kh1 Nxe5 25. Rf6 click for larger view To my surprize my line is equally strong, which is an unicum!

Jun-07-20		andrewjsacks: Pun well done.

Jun-07-20		HeMateMe: Its a great pun! He must be smoking parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.

Jun-07-20		jith1207: <He must be smoking parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.> I don't know about that for someone living in the bridge, but what do I know?

Jun-07-20		goodevans: <17...dxe5?> was undoubtedly a mistake and the SF notes to this game give <17...Bb7 18.exf6 exf6 19.f5> as preferable. In this line, though, I'm not so sure 19.f5 is a particularly worrying move. If I were black I'd be more concerned about <19.Bf3> with a view to establishing a piece on d5. With that in mind it's understandable that Mr Walter tried to keep the e-file closed. So whilst SF points to 17...dxe5 as the losing move I feel that black had already sown the seeds of his own destruction by then. Trading off his fianchettoed B may not have been the wisest of choices and failing to castle when he had the chance didn't help either. That said, the way Reti took advantage of black's inaccuracies was both masterly and beautiful.

Jun-07-20		Cheapo by the Dozen: Nice finish, nice two-name pun.

Jun-07-20		HeMateMe: Weren't the 'wild and crazy guys' Steve Martin and Dan Akyroyd from Bratislava?

Jun-07-20		AylerKupp: <WorstPlayerEver> Thanks for helping me expand my vocabulary. I didn't know what an "unicum" was so I had to look it up. What I first found was a description of a Hungarian drink described as "an alcoholic, bitter tincture made up of 40 herbs and spices from all across the world. It has a dark color and it tastes quite bitter." And I also found a link to a video of a gal trying Unicum for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfd.... This video reminded me of the time I had some friends for dinner and afterwards one of them asked me if I had any B&B (Benedictine & Brandy). I said that I didn't, but I that had some straight Benedictine and some Cognac so we could make some B&B by mixing them in equal quantities. I then asked him if he had ever tried straight Benedictine and he said he hadn't, so I poured him some. He made a grimace after tasting it and remarked that it reminded him of the time he drank some carburetor cleaner by mistake. He owned an auto parts store. What does this have to do with chess? Well after playing over some of my games I felt about the same as that gal and my friend did after drinking unicum and Benedictine. So this post is not entirely off-topic.

Jun-07-20		Diademas: <AylerKupp: <WorstPlayerEver> Thanks for helping me expand my vocabulary. I didn't know what an "unicum" was so I had to look it up.> One sperm?

Jun-07-20		beatgiant: <tpstar> <24 ... Qxa4 25. Bxe6 and the only way to prevent 26. Bf7# is the sad 25 ... Qc4, when 26. Bxc4 Rxc4 27. Bd2 leaves White up a piece.> It's worse than that, 24...Qxa4 25. Bxe6 Qc4 <26. Bd7+> Kd8 27. Bb5+ Kc7 28. Bxc4 leaves White up two pieces.

Jun-07-20		AylerKupp: <Diademas> That's what I thought too, although a word other than "sperm" came to mind. But neither were on the list of possibilities. :-)

Jun-07-20		jith1207: Not just <One sperm>, it's that one sperm that exists only on stories, that looks like it has a horn growing out of its forehead, as opposed to the tail growing out for all other sperms. It just happens to exist once in a while, but when it does it gives one the rare, perfect and best of the times ever.

Jun-07-20		Diademas: If <Unicum> becomes a Marvel character, <WPE> should get royalties.

Jun-07-20		Everett: Pretty early execution of this English system. Didn’t Botvinnik introduce the unforced retreat Nc2?

Jun-07-20		RandomVisitor: The position after 13.Bh6. Stockfish favors black click for larger view Stockfish_20060616_x64_modern: <47/73 32:49 -0.30 13...Qd7 14.Qe1 Ba6> 15.Nb4 0-0-0 16.Nxa6 Nxa6 17.e5 dxe5 18.Bg7 f6 19.Bxh8 Rxh8 20.Rd1 Qc6 21.f4 e4 22.f5 Nc5 23.Qh4 Qe8 24.Rd5 Nab7 25.Rfd1 g5 26.Qh6 Kb8 27.h4 gxh4 28.Qxh4 Qc8 29.Qh6 Qc7 30.Kf2 Na4 31.Rd7 Qc5+ 32.Qe3 Nxc3

Jun-07-20		thegoodanarchist: This game was played in Bratislava. Bratislava gets no respect in American movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mY...

Jun-07-20		thegoodanarchist: Just looked at the game. 24.Bxc4 is a stunning shot! Reti was a superb player.

Jun-07-20		thegoodanarchist: Alec Berg was a writer on the comedy TV show <Seinfeld>. His name was actually used in one of the episodes. According to his wikipedia page, he is of Swedish descent. He wrote the screenplay for <Eurotrip>, a movie in which he denigrated Bratislava. I visited the wikipedia entry for Bratislava. There are a very large number of photos, which make up a spectacular slide show. They show a city that is a mix of old and new. A vibrant, clean, beautiful city filled with great beautiful architecture, centered on a lovely river front. It's as if the wikipedia entry is there to serve as a rebuttal to Alec Berg. It is a gorgeous city, and the slide show made me want to visit it. I am willing to wager that quality of life in Bratislava is off the hook! The final image in the slide show traces the Danube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brati... That majestic river originates darn close to where France, Switzerland and Germany meet at one point.

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