Richard Réti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Richard Réti

chess player and author

Date of Birth: 28-May-1889

Place of Birth: Pezinok, Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 06-Jun-1929

Profession: writer, chess composer, chess player

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Richard Selig Réti (28 May 1889, Bazin (now Pezinok) – 6 June 1929, Prague) was an Austro-Hungarian, later Czechoslovak chess grandmaster, 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.