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Richard Reti vs Charles Gilbert Marriott Watson
London (1922), London ENG, rd 9, Aug-11
Queen's Gambit Declined: Orthodox Defense. Botvinnik Variation (D60)  ·  0-1

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ANALYSIS [x]
Notes by Geza MaroczyWhite has obtained a strong attacking position.The attack could have been continued better by Nb5 cxd4 31 Nd6. The text-move simplifies the position and leads only to equality.After the preferable 33 dxc5 White would have had rather the better end-game.White was extremely short of time. Rd1! was simpler and more promising.Kxh6 offered many more chances.0-1

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Mar-06-10
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  GrahamClayton: Watson became the first Australian player to defeat a Grandmaster in a tournament game.
Aug-01-20  zydeco: Three contenders - Bogoljubow, Tartakower, and Reti - had devastating losses in this round, Reti in this case by trying massively too hard for a win.
Aug-18-21
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  FSR: <GrahamClayton> Reti was one of the world's leading players, but never formally a "grandmaster." FIDE first awarded that title in 1950, long after he died. The same is true of Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Nimzowitsch, Tarrasch, Marshall and many others.
Oct-01-21  optimal play: 10...dxc4 compare 10...N6d7

S Sazontiev vs Karpov, 1964

77.Ng7?

The knight went the wrong way.

81...Nxf4?!

Black has it won anyway.

<<Watson became the first Australian player to defeat a Grandmaster in a tournament game.> Reti was one of the world's leading players, but never formally a "grandmaster." FIDE first awarded that title in 1950, long after he died.>

The earliest instance of an Australian defeating an *official* Grandmaster (post 1950) in a classical tournament game seems to be Ian Rogers vs Jonathan Speelman in 1983

I Rogers vs Speelman, 1983

This excludes Lajos Steiner, Walter Browne, and Gary Lane, and against players who later attained the GM title.

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