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  2. Réti Opening - Wikipedia

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    Réti popularized these moves against all defenses in the spirit of hypermodernism, and as the opening developed it gained structure and a clearer distinction between it and other openings. Hans Kmoch called the system of attack employed by Réti in the game Réti–Rubinstein, Carlsbad 1923, [ 5 ] "the Réti Opening" or "the Réti System".

  3. Zukertort Opening - Wikipedia

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    A flank opening, it is the third most popular of the twenty legal opening moves White has, behind only 1.e4 and 1.d4. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The move has been described by Edmar Mednis as a "perfect and flexible opening" [ 6 ] and by others such as Aron Nimzowitsch as "certainly the most solid move, whereas moves such as 1.e4 and 1.d4 are both ...

  4. Réti endgame study - Wikipedia

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    Richard Réti. The Réti endgame study is a chess endgame study by Richard Réti.It was published in 1921 in Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten.It demonstrates how a king can make multiple threats and how it can take more than one path to a given location, using the same number of moves.

  5. List of chess openings named after people - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Companion to Chess lists 1,327 named openings and variants. [1] Chess players' names are the most common sources of opening names. The name given to an opening is not always that of the first player to adopt it; often an opening is named for the player who was one of the first to popularise it or to publish analysis of it.

  6. Computer chess - Wikipedia

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    One particular type of search algorithm used in computer chess are minimax search algorithms, where at each ply the "best" move by the player is selected; one player is trying to maximize the score, the other to minimize it. By this alternating process, one particular terminal node whose evaluation represents the searched value of the position ...

  7. Georgy Lisitsin - Wikipedia

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    Lisitsin was considered an expert on the Reti Opening above all others and won many of his best games with it. [6] He was an author of several chess books, [7] only a few sections of which have been translated from Russian into English. He wrote primarily about strategy, tactics, and endgame theory.

  8. List of chess gambits - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code ; Print/export ... The gambits are organized into sections by the parent chess opening ... 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.d4 d6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 dxe5 7 ...

  9. Richard Réti - Wikipedia

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    One of the top players in the world during the 1910s and 1920s, he began his career as a combinative classical player, favoring openings such as the King's Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4). After the end of the First World War , however, his playing style changed, and he became one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism , along with Aron ...