Game of the week May 26, 2019May 26, 2019 by Robert Huntington Réti would be 130 on Tuesday. [Site "Budapest 1918"] [White "Richard Réti"] [Black "Gyula Breyer"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C32"] [Annotator "ATH"] [PlyCount "37"] [EventDate "1918.??.??"] [EventType "schev"] [EventRounds "3"] [EventCountry "HUN"] [SourceTitle "StarBase 2.88"] [Source "Pickard & Son"] [SourceDate "2003.01.15"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2003.01.15"] [SourceQuality "2"] 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 e4 4. d3 Nf6 5. dxe4 Nxe4 6. Nf3 Bc5 7. Qe2 Bf2+ $6 ( 7... Bf5 {is the main line, e.g.,} 8. Nc3 Qe7 9. Be3 Nxc3 10. Bxc5 Qxe2+ 11. Bxe2 Nxe2 12. Kxe2 Na6 13. Ba3 Bxc2 14. Kd2 Be4 15. Ng5 Bxd5 16. Rhe1+ Kd7 { Henison-Geltinger, corr 2000} 17. Re5 $14) 8. Kd1 Qxd5+ $2 (8... f5 9. Nfd2 Bh4 10. Nxe4 fxe4 11. Qxe4+ $16 {Alapin-Romanovsky, St. Petersburg 1906}) 9. Nfd2 $18 f5 ({Stockfish thinks} 9... O-O {is marginally better but after} 10. Qxe4 { Black doesn't have nearly enough for the piece so the text is doubtless the better practical move (at least among humans)}) 10. Nc3 Qd4 11. Ncxe4 fxe4 12. c3 $1 (12. Qxe4+ $16) 12... Qe3 $6 (12... Qa4+ 13. b3 Qc6 14. Nxe4 Bb6 15. Ba3 {is somewhat less horrible for Black}) 13. Qh5+ Kf8 14. Bc4 Qxf4 15. Qd5 Bg4+ $6 ({Not that it matters but} 15... Qg4+ {is better}) 16. Kc2 Ke8 $2 ({Likewise } 16... Qf6) 17. Nxe4 Qf5 18. Rf1 $2 ({Again, not that it matters but} 18. Qxb7 {is even stronger}) 18... c6 $2 (18... Qxd5 19. Bxd5 c6 20. Nxf2 Be2 21. Re1 cxd5 22. Rxe2+ {allows Black to limp into a piece-down endgame}) 19. Qd3 1-0 your web browser and/or your host do not support iframes as required to display the chessboard; alternatively your wordpress theme might suppress the html iframe tag from articles or excerpts Views: 50