Photograph of Richard Reti

Author: Reti, Richard (1889-1929) signedYear: 1926Publisher: Atelier Amerling Place: Wien (Vienna)Description:Photograph card. Duodecimo (5 1/4" x 3 1/4") on heavy card stock. Signed and dated 22-3-1926 on the verso in black ink.Richard Réti was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author, and composer of endgame studies. He was born in Pezinok which at the time was in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary, where his father worked as a physician in the service of the Austrian military. Réti came to Vienna to study mathematics at Vienna University. 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). However, after the end of the First World War, his playing style changed, and he became one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism, along with Aron Nimzowitsch and others. With the exception of Nimzowitsch's book My System, he is conside