The Hypermodern. Co-founder of the Hypermodern school. Famous for Réti's Endgame Study and the Réti Opening.
Richard Réti was a co-founder of the Hypermodern school alongside Nimzowitsch, most famous for the Réti Opening (1.Nf3) and his astonishing endgame study demonstrating how a king can simultaneously chase two passed pawns, a paradox that took the chess world by storm. He set a world blindfold simultaneous record in 1925, playing 29 boards. His book 'Masters of the Chessboard' (1930) is a classic of chess literature, blending biography, history, and instruction. He died suddenly in 1929 at age 40 from scarlet fever.
Notable: Réti's endgame study (1921) is considered one of the most elegant in chess history. His stunning win against Capablanca in New York 1924 broke the Cuban's eight-year unbeaten streak.
| Era | Hypermodern |
| Years | 1889–1929 |
| Peak rating | 2630 |
| Born | Pezinok, Hungary (now Slovakia), 1889 |
| Title | Leading Hypermodern player (1920s) |
| Style | Flank openings, fianchetto bishops, flexible pawn structures |
Réti, reconstructed from the player's own games and measured against a modern engine, as a UCI engine for your machine: it runs locally and offline, loads into CZUBATRONIC 2400 as an external engine, and into any compatible UCI chess interface. Strong chess from the engine; the choices, recognisably Réti's.
| File | ChessGate_Reti.exe · 26 MB |
| Runs in | CZUBATRONIC 2400 (as an external engine) and any UCI chess interface |
| Requirements | Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit; any UCI chess interface; CZUBATRONIC 2400 lists it as an external engine |
| Works offline | Yes. No account, no server. |
| Packs | — |
| Collection | Complete Personality Collection |
| In the browser | A lighter version of Réti plays on ChessGate. |
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