I also think Demuth's book The Modernized Reti is currently the best available on the Reti....it is an excellent book.

I also have Lakdawala's book How Ulf Beats Black. Whilst there are a few good chapters I felt that many lines were very lightly covered and the author didn't really bridge the gap between Ulf's playing days and current theory. I wouldn't call it a repertoire book.

Chesspublishing contributor Sam Collins also has a Move by Move book on the Reti Opening due out in the near future which should be interesting.

I like the Demuth book, I think some parts of his rep are very well thought out.

I've been wondering about extending my Marin-influenced English and bought How Ulf beats Black. I've just started with it but it looks good. Not comprensive but impressive in terms of the games and getting across the ethos of how Andersson approaches playing 1.Nf3.
I think I will try it, using the KID exchange and anti-Grunfeld but combining some of the Marin lines and some ideas from Dynamic Reti by Nigel Davies.
Does everybody think 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 is so fearsome ? davies does a good job of showing some attractive ideas playing 3.g3 and just playing a reversed or Reti Benoni as he calls it.

I don't think anyone has mentioned Nigel Davies's book 'The Dynamic Reti' yet.

It's a repertoire book for white which I am always tempted to go back to. Some interesting stuff in there. It's been discussed on the forum in more than one thread, if you care to search for it.

CanadianClub wrote on 07/24/17 at 15:13:16:


Personally I suggest that if you meet 1. Nf3 with d5, you should meet 2. g3 with 2. .. Nc6 and 3. Bg2 with 3. .. e5. In other words attempt to play as White. What puts me off this is the reply 2.d4 against 1. .. d5 when you have to play a line usually arising from 1. d4 d5 . The move order of playing 2. b3 can avoid this, but then you are again playing as Black, this time in a Queens/Nimzo Indian style of position if Black plays .. c5.

I am flirting with double fianchetto systems against 1.Nf3 d5 (to bypass the problem of 2.c4 d4), so... maybe I will watch some of your games

What will be (in your opinion) the most annoying system against double fianchetto? Triangle d5-c6-Bg4-e6 maybe ?

There is some audience out there for a book on 1.Nf3 in Reti-style (not videos, a real book), uh? 

thx !

TonyRo wrote on 03/21/17 at 13:16:58:


What's the problem with the Reti Accepted, Tony? It seemed to me that with 3.e3 you get a QGA main line most of the time, in which White is a little better...