Wednesday’s chess puzzle
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
Good morning Wednesday! White has two runners (passed pawns), one on the Kingside and the other on the Queenside. The Black Bishop can not stop both (or can it?). Now the only question is this: how will the White King dance? Can you dance the dance? White to play and win. Good luck!
Richard Réti (28 May 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austrian-Hungarian, later Czechoslovakian Grandmaster , noted chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He became one of the world’s top players during the 1910’s and 1920’s, and together with Nimzovitch created the hypermodern school of chess.
His name is attached to the opening move 1.Nf3. Curiously, in the 1924 New York International Chess Tournament he defeated both Capablanca and Alekhine in the same number of moves (31), with the first and last moves in both games being identical!
His writings have also become “classics” in the chess world. Modern Ideas in Chess and Masters of the Chess Board are still studied today. Réti died on June 6, 1929 in Prague of scarlet fever. He had just turned 40 years old. Reti is buried in Vienna.
Reti’s chess compositions occupy a very special place in the world of problem composing. Original and brilliant in concept; but at the same time enormously practical.
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS