The Réti is a popular opening at all levels of chess. The great advantage it possesses over other openings is that it's a thematic system which can be adopted against many different defences, and because of this it's a firm favourite...

Die Réti-Eröffnung wird über die Züge 1. Sg1-f3 d7-d5 2. c2-c4 eingeleitet, soweit sie nicht unter Zugumstellungen auf dem Brett entsteht. Sie führt das Spiel regelmäßig in ruhige und positionell geprägte Stellungen und vermeidet frühe...

In the last five years we have been observing a noticeable trend of the chess elite to evade the warn off central pawns moves 1.e4 and 2.d4 in favour of 1.c4 and 1.Nf3. Naturally, lower ranked players eagerly followed in the leader's...