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Re: The agressive Reti !
Reply #1 - 01/25/06 at 10:18:36
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Well, all White is trying to do in playing the Réti is to lay the right positional foundations for an attack - so in that sense it is an aggressive opening.

There is a school of thought that an early clash of forces simply dissipates White's initial edge by bringing matters to a head too quickly.  The Réti seeks to avoid that - hence, to name but one example, Kasparov using it to defeat Karpov in the do-or-die 24th game of their 1987(?) match.

And as John Watson has pointed out in his Flank Openings updates lately, the English (and we can put the Réti in the same category for these purposes) has the advantage that you will not run into twenty-fice or thrity moves of 'main line' theory in e.g. the Petroff.
  
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The agressive Reti !
01/25/06 at 09:57:54
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Hi all,

for a while now I have been analysing games starting with 1. Nf3 and developping towards the Reti opening. I always thought that this opening was dull and lead to lengthy positional manoeuvers but I was surprised to discover some gems of attacking chess!

This seems to confirm my idea that it is now what you play that matters most, but how you play it! Look at this game between to GMs:

Event "Bundesliga 0405"
Site "Germany"
Date "2004.11.12"
[Round "8"]
[White "Hickl,Joerg"]
[Black "Johannessen,Leif Erlend"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "A14"]
<b>1.g3 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.b3 0-0 6.Bb2 c5 7.0-0 Nc6 8.e3 b6 
9.Nc3 dxc4 10.bxc4 Bb7 11.Qe2 Nb4 12.d4 cxd4 13.exd4 Rc8 14.Rfd1 Re8 15.Rac1 Bf8 16.a3 Nc6 
17.Ne5 Qc7 18.Nb5 Qb8 19.c5 Nd5 20.Nd7 Qa8 21.Qg4 Rcd8 22.Nxf8 Rxf8 23.Nd6 Na5 24.Nxb7 Qxb7 
25.Bc3 Nc6 26.Bd2 Kh8 27.Bf4 Rfe8 28.Bd6 Nce7 29.Qh5 Kg8 30.Be4 h6 31.g4 f6 32.Re1 Qd7 
33.h4 bxc5 34.dxc5 e5 35.g5 Nf4 36.Qf3 hxg5 37.hxg5 Nf5 38.gxf6 Nd4 39.Bd5+ Kh8 40.Qh1+ Nh3+ 
41.Kf1 Qf5 42.fxg7+ Kxg7 43.Qg2+ Kf6 44.Be4 Qh5 45.Qh2 Rg8 46.Bg2 Rxd6 47.cxd6 Rxg2 48.Qxg2 Nf4 
49.d7 Nde6 50.Rc6 Kf7 51.d8=Q Nxd8 52.Rc7+ Ke6 53.Qg8+ Nf7 54.Qxf7+ Qxf7 55.Rxf7 Kxf7 56.Rxe5  
1-0</b>

Do some of you also use the Reti as an agressive opening?

  
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