CHESS PLAYER

Richard Réti

1889 - 1929

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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. He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Réti has received more than 182,328 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Réti is the 25th most popular chess player (down from 24th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Slovakia (up from 291st in 2019) and the most popular Slovak Chess Player.

Richard Réti is most famous for inventing the Hypermodern Defense in chess. He also invented the Réti Opening, which is a popular opening for Black in the game of chess.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Richard Réti ranks 25 out of 461. Before him are Ruy López de Segura, Viktor Korchnoi, Samuel Reshevsky, Judit Polgár, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Akiba Rubinstein. After him are Johannes Zukertort, David Bronstein, Mikhail Chigorin, Miguel Najdorf, Savielly Tartakower, and Vera Menchik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Richard Réti ranks 44. Before him are Kim Tu-bong, Hannes Meyer, Li Dazhao, Otto Georg Thierack, Olave Baden-Powell, and Philip Noel-Baker. After him are Hannes Kolehmainen, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Siegfried Kracauer, Hannah Höch, Lyubov Popova, and Frank Lentini. Among people deceased in 1929, Richard Réti ranks 30. Before him are Franz Rosenzweig, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Arthur Scherbius, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Prince Henry of Prussia, and Thomas Burke. After him are Stepa Stepanović, Asa Griggs Candler, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Liang Qichao, Tanaka Giichi, and Carl Auer von Welsbach.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Richard Réti ranks 32 out of 418. Before him are Pribina (800), Ľudovít Štúr (1815), Andrej Hlinka (1864), Ernst von Dohnányi (1877), Gyula Andrássy the Younger (1860), and Edita Gruberová (1946). After him are Andrej Babiš (1954), Lajos Batthyány (1807), Pál Maléter (1917), Peter Lorre (1904), Michal Kováč (1930), and Milan Hodža (1878).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Slovakia

Among chess players born in Slovakia, Richard Réti ranks 1. After him are Ignatz Kolisch (1837), Adolf Schwarz (1836), Herman Steiner (1905), Max Weiss (1857), and Ľubomír Ftáčnik (1957).

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