Chess Openings – Reti’s Opening
In this video from www.thechesswebsite.com Kevin discusses the Reti’s opening. The Reti’s opening is not exactly an opening, but a system which can transpose into many openings. In this system, you will be using your minor pieces – the knight and the bishop to control the center instead of the pawns. The Reti’s opening starts with 1.nf3, d5, 2.c4. This move, eventually forms a castle for the white king and at the same time maintains an attack on the d4 and e5 square.
Reti’s opening can transpose into a lot of other openings such as the Ruy Lopez, the Queen’s Gambit or even the English opening. This move is generally used when the player wants to avoid getting trapped into the opponent’s defense strategies, as this gives the player the opportunity of transposing his moves into different openings.
Here is an illustration of one example. The white starts with 1nf3 to which the black responds with d4. Then quickly the white can move the c4, which is the English opening. We are already seeing how the Reti transposes into different openings. But the black being in a position to capture c4, white can still move pawn to e3 so the bishop can cover c4, which is the Queen’s Gambit.
Kevin clearly explains the different openings with other options which can be used with the Reti’s opening. Please follow the video.
