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Richard Réti

Richard Réti, Slovak-Czech chess player and author (died 1929)

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Born
May 28, 1889
Died
June 6, 1929
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1889

About Richard Réti

Richard Réti was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies. In 1925 Réti set a world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously. Réti defeated World Champion José Raúl Capablanca in the New York 1924 chess tournament in 31 moves – Capablanca's first defeat in eight years, his only loss to Réti, and his first since becoming world champion. 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 Nimzowitsch and others.

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Career and life highlights

Richard Réti timeline

  1. Réti defeated World Champion José Raúl Capablanca in the New York 1924 chess tournament in 31 moves – Capablanca's first defeat in eight years, his only loss to Réti, and his first since becoming world champion.
  2. In 1925 Réti set a world record for blindfold chess with 29 games played simultaneously.

The world when Richard Réti was born

Richard Réti was born in 1889. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineEiffel Tower opens for Paris World's Fair
  • Technology milestoneEiffel Tower — world's tallest structure
  • World population~1.49B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderBenjamin Harrison
  • U.S. population58.6M

1889 versus 2026

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Measure18892026
Population58.6M341 million

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