Réti Opening: Lecture by GM Ben Finegold
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- Check out Ben's Chessable courses here! www.chessable.... The Réti Opening is a hypermodern chess opening whose "traditional" or "classic method" begins with the moves: 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4
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I wasn't Reti for this, looks like a bunch of Benoni to me...
BOO
,” Said every chess dad that ever dadded.
This comment is pure Finegold
This was like a bowl of baked reti with meat sauce.
Alphazero approves the reti
Low rated players blunder a piece on move 1
What's not to like about Reti opening?
They aren’t blundering. They are just showing the Ross Gambit some love.
I looked at all the different openings and I picked 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 as my main opening with white. I get to decide which opening to play, and to avoid a bunch of trash, by delaying my first pawn move. I figured all this out on my own, so annoying that now Finegold puts it out as a video. Hopefully my opponents don't see this.
"In complicated positions, both sides make a lot of mistakes" please actually make that lecture!
Plenty of lectures are like that.
Yess
Sponsor it bb
I’m Réti for another GM Ben Finegold lecture!
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Boo !! Fine, gold humour :D
jesus christ
I would like to see the "In complicated positions, players make a lot of mistakes" lecture.
"Something really, really bad is gonna happen soon. And to avoid that, he resigned" 😂 24:55
'''Grandmasters can't be on move 2 and be confused'' Magnus VS Niemann flashbacks
i can’t believe this content is free
True, but he makes money on sponsoring videos, TH-cam revenue, the audience he insults in person, etc. Plus, he's Ben Finegold and you're not. 😂
@@jamesbell1613id rather not be him either, with all due respect😅
😂 😂 😂
Notification squad... Terrible
I'm listening to Retiohead while I watch the lecture
I learned how to make my pieces disappear completely
Thanks for this lecture! I love this opening. I feel like part of the reason it's super underrated is because Stockfish says a lot of the lines after 2.d5 are practically "equal", but as noted in the lecture I feel like these games get complicated enough that understanding the position is much more important than whatever the engine calculates 40 moves down the line. Very cool to see Aronian bring it out and test the Advance Variation against a strong opponent in Caruana.
I find the same thing. In the low level club games I play otb, I play guys who have been playing a decade or two and they're still thinking in the first few moves.
Hey, since you know the opening... Any tips on improving my understanding of the position in the middle game?
I find it difficult to decide what the right... Ideas are for the middle game.
The opening is able to play on both sides pretty easily it seems, and I'm not yet clear on how to decide, since I usually favour playing with an open center.
Or, I may recognize that I am strangling my opponent, but it is unclear to me where to put pressure, because while they can't move, everything is defended.
But this looks like a very enjoyable opening, that I'd like to play more (:
I know I’m super late to the party, but I play the Reti a lot and find myself in the same solid positions in the middle game with great center control and piece placement. I often find that a few waiting moves are all I need to get an imbalance on the board that I can try to exploit. Something like a quiet a3, h3, simply taking space.
@@EliasMheart I thought I'd replied to this, but I must've never actually done it. My apologies!
One drawback of the Reti is that you do need to know different thematic moves and ideas in a few different variations. The Advance is the one you really need to know, since it's the most testing, and your biggest asset often involves a bind on the Queenside to block in the opponent's Knight, plus a great diagonal for your light-squared bishop (which you should usually fianchetto except in specific lines like the Reverse Blumenfeld.) It really does vary depending on how your opponent responds though, so there while there are thematic ideas, there is nothing necessarily routine.
If you like an open centre, though, it might not be the opening you'd prefer to play, as the Reti doesn't tend to create open positions unless the opponent takes the c-pawn. I think it's also important not to focus too much on attacking chess and more on improving pieces and getting them to ideal squares, while either playing around the centre or building up to challenge it. I enjoy breaking up and undermining the opponent's centre, and that is the main general idea behind most variations in the Reti, I'd say.
26:45 That's Rapport, and he indeed did it for the money. He got a nice sponsorship from a romanian billionare. The hungarian chess fed was pretty butthurt about it, but I can understand Richard on this matter.
Thank you for this. The Reti has been my go to opening for white for years.
I was looking for openings for white for a full year when I started playing chess. I actually played much better with black for the first 13 months until I found a healthy balance of Nf3 on move one and c4 on move one, occasionally reaching the Wikipedia position
Thanks for clearing it up for me that openings are not, in fact, people. I've been struggling with this abstract concept for my entire 36-year chess career. You have no idea how much this means to me Ben. Hopefully now I can break out of 200 ELO hell.
Whoo Hoo. I knew my fruitless years of losing in the Benoni would pay dividends.
Now I can lose as white in a Benoni reversed!
Thanks so much for this Ben. The Reti is all I play as white, sometimes the English and of course many transpositions. This and the Modern/Pirc as black is why I like Tomi Nybäck so much. 😄👍
Regarding the player who switched to the Romanian chess federation: it wasn't a Pole, it was Richard Rapport from Hungary. As far as I know it was for economic reasons, but there might be political aspects as well (not going to touch that as someone not from the area).
No political aspects. He simply sold himself.🤷🏻♀️
Ben is too cool to be true. Actually, he is three cool to be true.
Great lecture! Hyper modern looks pretty fun to play (:
I have a question: In openings that don't open the center, I feel that it is harder to decide what to do in the middle game. Are there already lectures on this? Or, are there ideas/rules/... for it?
The GMs in the shown games often maneuver for what feels like 50 moves, but I don't see that far ahead, yet.
Especially in an opening that is this balanced... Do I attack Queen or King side? Do I push b5, or do I go g5?
For these kinds of questions, I don't have a mental framework, so tips/references would be greatly appreciated!
Really informative and well worth the time. It makes me think that if I rewatch this many times, and practice this against the computer repeatedly, I will internalize the concepts and ideal piece placements, and crush my opponents.
Wait, new Finegold content? I wasn't Retí!
33:45 "Who knows why people do things?" Especially perhaps Alejandro Ramirez... :|
Ben it was Rapport who started playing for Romania.
i have been waiting my whole chess career for this.
Are you sure you're reti for it?
a lecture about my favorite opening by my favorite lecturer! This is a blessed day!
Réti or not, here comes 1. Nf3! 🤓
5:16 Aronian vs Caruana
14:50 Anand vs -
28:16 Wojtaszek vs Rublevksy
32:04 Kasparov vs Sosonko (Bathtub)
42:10 Aronian vs Carlsen
I think the Anand vs Salem one was a slaughter. Black had a useless Queen, 2 Useless rooks and a Jamie Lannister Knight no center pawns after white gave black the center for free. Aronian Vs Caruana Black lost when they pushed the F7 pawn to F5 instead of F4, destroying their own pawn structure. I won the last 20 games online and only 1 person gave me a real fight. Black can get in with their Queen right away and cause a lot of complicated issues. No one is ever RETI so they are scared to bring the Queen in.
Damn, Vishy was Vicious 😬
By move six there are no under-1700 playing like this for black. Study how to punish the inaccuracies and harvest your ELO.
First? ... Go Ben!
I'm interested in learning about the Reti, but why can I hear him swallowing every time he's swallowing?
Wow, GM Sosonko hung a queen? I didn't know that Grandmasters were allowed to do that... Great lecture AGAIN, thanks Ben, thanks Anonymous!
Oh no, my queen 😭
Owens and Reti are the two I would like to better my play style with
Thank you Ben, an unusual lecture here, not so many jokes 😲
Zuckertort variation has a nice scope but I’m frequently playing 4 pawn moves early that way OR 3 but E4 is like move 5-6.
I guess I won’t my cake and to eat it too with the Reti lol. Gambit accepted and beautiful fianchettoed bishops lol
I noticed the reti is hikarus most used opening in rapid
Based
Go ben!
Ben10?
Similar to the Hungarian opening?
One of Ben's very best lectures.
I think the romanian master is rapport
Thinking wasn't his strong suit🙂
The Reti is my favorite opening to play as white, especially fianchettoing both bishops. Great lecture! How about another one soon???
BENadryl
Totally agree with your comments about beginner openings. That's why I NEVER play 1.e4 and NEVER play 1...e5 against 1.e4--instant 200 point rating advantage against younger players. I've been playing flank openings since I was 16 (when it had surprise value on top of everything else.)
However, I do think that 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 is easy for beginning players to deal with. So I don't ever play a pure Réti. After 1.Nf3 d5, I bail out with 2.d4. Then there are all kinds of possibilities.
Nf3 d5 c4 is my go to opening. But at my level everyone takes c4, then e3 and eventually bishop takes b4. The advanced variation (2... d4) always gives me trouble because I never play it, so I am very grateful for this video.
I really like GM Finegold's videos, but would it be possible to make the graphics (board and pieces) at higher resolution? Even at full HD it is blurry. Thx!
*Réti or not, here I come!*
At 26:50, you're thinking of Richard Rapport who just switched federations from Hungary to Romania. I guess he was full and not Hungary anymore
Hi GM Ben, found something at 34:57 wherein it's not Bxa8 taking the rook but Bxe5 first to trap the rook. Might help others wondering about this position 😊
Awesome
It was cool to learn more about this Reti opening, and how interesting and unpredictable games can be because of it. Excellent lecture Ben.
תודה רבה..היה מעניין מאוד
As you point out Ben, I really enjoy 2...d4 3.g3 c5 4. b4 because I play the Benko as black!
"but it's an opening, instead of a person."
ah, thanks for clarifying, i was confused there for a second
Reti = when white opens with Nf3, geberally looking to fianchetto the B kingside.
I play Benoni but I still don't like 3.b4 seems like despite the extra tempo white's attack is delayed.
Remember safety tip: if you disagree with Ben, you are wrong.
i love playing such exotic structures like reti. this lecture did pretty good job in expanding my base of ideas.
Ben talks to much without actually saying anything
Maybe you're to stupid to understand
Currently my favorite opening, thanks for the lecture!
it was rapport (aka the other Duda for ben) who started playing for Romania
I was born Reti
Never press F9!
Oh boy, I can't wait to start playing like Anand!
I recently started playing Nf3, this is perfect
GMBFFTW!!!
Attribution Doc Holliday sees double.
I think he played a Modern or Pirc not a Philidore
25:00 Rxg6 looks even more brutal
"not to occupy the center but to attack the sender" even native speakers are confusing🤦♂
Lmfao I think you’re the only one confused
Thanks for rhe free lecture. (:
Go Ben! Love your posts. More Morphy!!!
Thanks for teaching me the reti
Excellent lecture. Thank you.
the channel is alive again go Ben
Are you guys also sometimes confused, which player is which? Whites name is first, so he is on top, but white is most of the times the bottom player xD
The first name is always playing white. Sometimes Ben will flip the board when talking primarily about the player with black, in honor of Ken West, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on.
@@nickmeyer1030 I thought he switched the board in case Mike Kummer was watching
I needed this in my life
Excellent lecture, thank you!
Best timing
danke
Have you considered using the evaluation bar next to the board like a lot of chess TH-camrs are doing now?
I'm surprised Carlson didn't quit the tournament calling Aronian a cheater or something
There was no Danny to leak a Report. 😁
Excellent stuff, thanks for sharing!
After watching it for 5 minutes where he said nothing, could not watch any longer.
It is extremely amusing to witness someone saying Caruana is an agressive player that plays like that. Only an american would say that between Caruana and Aronian, Faby is the agressive one. Come on man, some of us understand chess. Caruana is overrated.
Just get along with it