Richard Réti

Richard Réti
Full nameRichard Réti
CountryCzechoslovakia (after 1918)
Kingdom of Hungary (before 1918)
Born(1889-05-28)28 May 1889
Pezinok, Austria-Hungary
Died6 June 1929(1929-06-06) (aged 40)
Prague, Czechoslovakia

Richard Réti (28 May 1889 – 6 June 1929) was an Austro-Hungarian and later Czechoslovak chess player, chess author and composer of endgame studies.

He was one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. With the exception of Nimzowitsch's book My System, he is considered to be the movement's foremost literary contributor.