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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 167,523 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Richard Réti is the 24th most popular chess player (down from 21st in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Austria (down from 258th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian 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 24 out of 374. Before him are Adolf Anderssen, Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi, Vera Menchik, Ruy López de Segura, and Siegbert Tarrasch. After him are Akiba Rubinstein, Miguel Najdorf, Judit Polgár, Savielly Tartakower, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, and Johannes Zukertort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Richard Réti ranks 45. Before him are Hannes Kolehmainen, Hannes Meyer, Olave Baden-Powell, Frank Lentini, Otto Georg Thierack, and Kim Tu-bong. After him are Eberhard von Mackensen, Lyubov Popova, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Beno Gutenberg, Vera Mukhina, and Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma. Among people deceased in 1929, Richard Réti ranks 26. Before him are Antoine Bourdelle, Mercédès Jellinek, Charles Cooley, Wyatt Earp, Prince Henry of Prussia, and Arthur Scherbius. After him are Franz Rosenzweig, Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Thomas Burke, and Liang Qichao.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Richard Réti ranks 291 out of 1,237. Before him are Maria Theresia von Paradis (1759), Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427), Franz Böhme (1885), Guido von List (1848), Archduchess Barbara of Austria (1539), and Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514). After him are Toni Sailer (1935), Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915), Camillo Sitte (1843), Otto Robert Frisch (1904), Countess Georgina von Wilczek (1921), and Lotte Lenya (1898).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Austria

Among chess players born in Austria, Richard Réti ranks 1. After him are Carl Schlechter (1874), Rudolf Spielmann (1883), Ernst Grünfeld (1893), Erich Eliskases (1913), Eva Moser (1982), and Markus Ragger (1988).

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