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Opening Mondays: Reti, Set, Go!
12 years ago
Sorry for not posting this sooner today. I was going to post it this morning before going into work, but I just overlooked it. Anyway, here it is and our first opening we'll talk about is Reti Opening.
The Reti is a very flexible hyper modern opening that starts out with
1. Nf3 d5 2. c4
What gives it it's flexibility is two things: 1) White's pawn structure is not (terribly) weakened and is allow to place them as he/she sees fit and 2) it can transpose into other openings and we'll touch on that in a bit. The first move, 1. Nf3, also develops the knight to a good square that not only attacks the center, preventing black from making the move 1...e5 and it prepares white for a quicker castling.
As I stated before, this opening can transpose into other openings as well. For example...
1. Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 is the Queen's Gambit Declined
That's just one of several other openings the Reti Opening can change into. Other openings include the Catalan Opening, the English, the Queen's Pawn game or the King's Indian Attack.
Feel free to put your thoughts here on this!
The Reti is a very flexible hyper modern opening that starts out with
1. Nf3 d5 2. c4
What gives it it's flexibility is two things: 1) White's pawn structure is not (terribly) weakened and is allow to place them as he/she sees fit and 2) it can transpose into other openings and we'll touch on that in a bit. The first move, 1. Nf3, also develops the knight to a good square that not only attacks the center, preventing black from making the move 1...e5 and it prepares white for a quicker castling.
As I stated before, this opening can transpose into other openings as well. For example...
1. Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 is the Queen's Gambit Declined
That's just one of several other openings the Reti Opening can change into. Other openings include the Catalan Opening, the English, the Queen's Pawn game or the King's Indian Attack.
Feel free to put your thoughts here on this!
Reti:
1. Kt-KB3 | P-Q4
2. P-QB4
Reti to Queen's Gambit Declined
1. Kt-KB3 | P-Q4
2. P-QB4 | P-K3
3. P-Q4 | Kt-KB3
4. Kt-QB3
Personally, I dislike the Reti, as I do most gambit openings without an easy, developing equality. If black does respond with PxP (not the most common move, but bear with me) the main responses for equality are Kt-QR3 and P-K3. The former throws a knight to the edge of the board and hurts its development, and the latter develops nothing (BxP is possible, but not yet done). White doesn't gain a tempo here, and white should not offer gambits unless a tempo is firmly gained.
Rather than throwing Reti's gambit out there, I prefer to move towards Colle via P-Q4 or Barcza via P-KKt3.