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| Feb-16-10 | | tatarch: A knight on the rim is dim ... but not in this game |
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| Feb-16-10 | | WhiteRook48: well, Reti beat Euwe like 4 times, so this is his revenge... |
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| Feb-16-10 | | GMMandetowitch: 25-Tdd8 was the sort of brilliant beautiful move which the player with the black pieces is likely to overlook.Amazing game by Euwe,altough the opening moves can look a bit weird for modern day chess,there was nothing wrong with them at all.I'm a big fan of this game ! ;) |
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| Oct-23-10 | | sevenseaman: A rare game powered by clear thought. |
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| Dec-19-10 | | eightbyeight: It could also have happened the other way around: 29. ... Kb8 30. Bd6+ Ka(c)8 31. Nxb6#. |
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| Mar-05-11 | | Atking: I love it! I'm sure Reti applaud too. Euwe played it brillantly and with an Hypermodern mind! |
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| Mar-06-11 | | Wyatt Gwyon: The more Euwe games I go over, the more I feel he's underrated. His sense of strategy was profound. |
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| Mar-06-11 | | Atking: Underrated by many maybe because he was by nature, a modest man <Wyatt Gwyon> |
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| Nov-24-11 | | sevenseaman: What a game! A puzzle setter wouldn't know where to pick off. |
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| May-20-13 | | thomastonk: <blunderclap> This is nothing but a bad Reti game. In particular, 25.♖dd8 makes things unnecessary complicated. Please, have a look at 25.♗c1, for example. I criticize Reti's play, because Black is already lost after 17.. h4 and 18.. hxg3: no real threats on the king side, but he sacs his center! <Atking>'s remark on hypermodern mind is quite correct. In 1920, Reti played the openings still "old-fashioned", but Euwe's double fianchetto is really nice. Moreover, Euwe wasn't dogmatic, because he played 11.d4 (a move that could have been played even one move earlier). Compare this with the famous game Reti vs Lasker, 1924. Here, Reti had several occasions to play e4 and to get thereby an equal game at least, but advancing center pawns so much was impossible for him during this period. |
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| May-21-13 | | thomastonk: <blundercap: When a human sees Rdd8 he knows he has a winning game.> I am a human, too, but I knew that White had a winning advantage many moves before. That's probably the reason why I was not too impressed by this move. When I criticize Reti's play, then I don't blame Euwe. He seized his chance: well done! And, please, don't forget what I wrote about 11.d4. Euwe was just 19 years old, when he played it, and he was still far away from the world elite. But this game was his first win against such a master, it is short and contains interesting strategic and tactical aspects, and so it is understandably included in many collections of Euwe's games. Reti, however, was "Chess Master in residence" in the Netherlands. In 1919/1920 he lived there for about one year and played with the local players all kinds of games: simuls, blindfold, consultation and individual games and matches. He repeated a similar engagement in 1927/28. I have collected more than 80 games of these periods from Dutch newspapers, and my overall impression is: he made experiments! He lost far too many games, if you look at his opponents' strength, and he saved many in an incredible manner (and he won many pretty games, of course). He was testing his borders, he was a "searching mind, and every new insight was given to him only after much frustration" as he said about himself according to his brother Rudolf. So, these impressions strongly influence my view of Reti, and hence of this game, too. |
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| Jan-18-18 | | sneaky pete: https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/v... The column by Van Trotsenburg in the Algemeen Handelsblad, July 3, 1920, shows that black resigned after 29.Rd7+ .. and the last two moves shown here were not really played. |
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| Jan-18-18 | | sneaky pete: https://www.delpher.nl/nl/tijdschri... This is the game as published on pages 130/131 of the June 1920 issue of the Tijdschrift with notes by Euwe. At the top it says "played in June". To my surprise, Euwe gives the extended version with mate at move 31 instead of resignation at move 29. You don't know who you can trust anymore. |
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| Jan-18-18 | | zanzibar: I think I trust the newspaper report in this case. |
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| Jan-18-18 | | zanzibar: (Reti likely would be able to see the two M2's) Nice coordination of minor pieces + rook at the end. |
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| Dec-26-18 | | DonChalce: this game reminds me of that classical Blackburne's mate. Euwe, Fischer and Blackburne combinations and endgames are pure gold. |
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| Dec-26-18 | | sudoplatov: A quick check with the stock Stockfish engine shows that Black is doing well but 9....Bd6 gives White almost a Pawn advantage. The advantage continues to drift toward White. |
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| Sep-19-24 | | mel gibson: To avoid the mate in 3, Stockfish 17 sacs the Queen. 28. Re7+
(28. Re7+ (1.Re7+ Qxe7 2.Bxe7 a5 3.Rd5 Kb7 4.Bf8 Na7 5.Kxh2 Nc6 6.Nc3 Nb8 7.Kg2 Kc8 8.Kg1 Na6 9.Ne2 Nb8
10.Bxg7 Nd7 11.Kf2 Nc5 12.Bf8 Ne6 13.Re5 Kd7 14.Ba3 a4 ) +11.65/47 752) score for White +11.65 depth 47. |
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Sep-19-24
 | | Sally Simpson: From a four game match in 1920. These four games produced some wonderful chess. This one, a Queen for two Rooks attack. In Reti vs Euwe, 1920 and Euwe vs Reti, 1920 Reti sacrificed both Rooks in both games for a snap checkmate. In Reti vs Euwe, 1920 Euwe went in for a do or die attack... 
click for larger view...which Reti defused with some cool headed play. |
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Sep-19-24
 | | scormus: Neat! It took a while to see it, but once I did it was clearly 1-0. The trick is to avoid the temptation to play 28 ... Ra1+? which only draws. I suspect B saw that the text led the #, but decided to play it out as a nice way of resigning.
Nice pun, I hope <mel> appreciated it |
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| Sep-19-24 | | TheaN: Easier than yesterday, as it's way more direct. White will have to fire now, as Black is threatening all kinds of perpetuals (at least). 28.Ra8+ looks tempting, but after 28....Kb7 29.Rab8+! Ka7! = (Nxb8? 30.Re7+ +-) White isn't making progress. Interestingly, in the above line the key move is part of a variation, and describes my thinking process: "Re7+ is a serious threat, the knight defends it, we can't forcefully lure the knight away... wait, can we play Re7+ anyway?" and then it hit: <28.Re7+! Nxe7 (Qxe7 29.Bxe7 +-) 29.Rd7+> and Black's in a mating net <29....Kb8 (Ka8 30.Nxb6+ Kb8 31.Bd6#) 30.Bd6+ with 31.Nxb6#>. <scormus: I suspect B saw that the text led the #, but decided to play it out as a nice way of resigning.> Someone of Reti's caliber? Yes. In this case it's not that a though decision considering the alternative is a rook and bishop down shuffling the king, and in the time spirit it was courteous to allow a mating combination. That practice dwindled a bit in the course of the 20th century: I don't really understand why, as the core goal of this game is to checkmate. If your opponent can in a few moves, just allow it to happen. Resignation exists to prematurely end a hopeless situation, not necessarily to resign before impending doom. |
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Sep-19-24
 | | chrisowen: Do it is q it is hew it is clip v it is jazz it is Re7 gait hub eg duh it is axiom juggle it is ada it is na it is Re7 co it is... |
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Sep-19-24
| | scormus: <TheaN .... not necessarily to resign before impending doom.>
My thoughts exactly. Respects to Reti. |
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| Sep-19-24 | | Mfrankpsyd: Two elite mathematicians producing a geometric work of art. |
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Sep-19-24
| | chrisowen: Speedball make you look like a poor boy through that x |
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sac: 28.Re7+