4 points. Super simple, but profoundly influential and simply ingenious. Anybody who ever went to chess school has to give four points to this one.Gurvich claims that Sarychev’s realization of the same idea (1. Kc8!!!!) is superior. Purely in terms of content, this is probably the case. But the amazing geometry of the Réti study, and it being a four-stoner, secures a maximal score, too.
Идеальный этюд. Простой, понятный, с оригинальной на то время идеей. Оказал серьёзное влияние не только на композиторов, но и вообще на шахматистов.
4 points. Super simple, but profoundly influential and simply ingenious. Anybody who ever went to chess school has to give four points to this one.Gurvich claims that Sarychev’s realization of the same idea (1. Kc8!!!!) is superior. Purely in terms of content, this is probably the case. But the amazing geometry of the Réti study, and it being a four-stoner, secures a maximal score, too.