Modern Ideas In Chess
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: reissued with new foreword, 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: The dust jacket is a scarce survival of wartime economy production, printed on repurposed stock bearing the ghosted text and diagrams of an unrelated physics work, a hallmark of Britain's paper rationing under the War Economy Standard. It presents in good condition overall with expected age toning and edge wear, but remains complete and untrimmed, preserving this unusual piece of wartime publishing history intact.
Few books have shaped the intellectual landscape of chess as profoundly as Modern Ideas in Chess, in which the Czechoslovak grandmaster Richard Réti dismantles the rigid doctrines of classical play and champions the revolutionary hypermodern school of thought. Written with the clarity of a master teacher and the passion of a true innovator, the work chronicles the evolution of chess strategy from the rigid positional certainties of the 19th century through to the dynamic, counterintuitive ideas that would define the 20th century, arguing that control of the centre need not mean occupation of it. Réti's prose is as elegant as his play — analytical without being arid, and visionary without being obscure — making this text as rewarding for the casual enthusiast as it is essential for the serious student of the game. Translated by John Hart and presented here with a new foreword by H. Golombek, this edition bridges the historical distance between its first publication and the modern reader, illuminating why its core arguments remain fiercely relevant. A book that does not merely instruct but fundamentally alters how one sees the sixty-four squares, it leaves the reader questioning every assumption they ever held about the game.
Author: Richard Reti
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd.
Genre: Reference & language
Edition: reissued with new foreword, 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: The dust jacket is a scarce survival of wartime economy production, printed on repurposed stock bearing the ghosted text and diagrams of an unrelated physics work, a hallmark of Britain's paper rationing under the War Economy Standard. It presents in good condition overall with expected age toning and edge wear, but remains complete and untrimmed, preserving this unusual piece of wartime publishing history intact.
Few books have shaped the intellectual landscape of chess as profoundly as Modern Ideas in Chess, in which the Czechoslovak grandmaster Richard Réti dismantles the rigid doctrines of classical play and champions the revolutionary hypermodern school of thought. Written with the clarity of a master teacher and the passion of a true innovator, the work chronicles the evolution of chess strategy from the rigid positional certainties of the 19th century through to the dynamic, counterintuitive ideas that would define the 20th century, arguing that control of the centre need not mean occupation of it. Réti's prose is as elegant as his play — analytical without being arid, and visionary without being obscure — making this text as rewarding for the casual enthusiast as it is essential for the serious student of the game. Translated by John Hart and presented here with a new foreword by H. Golombek, this edition bridges the historical distance between its first publication and the modern reader, illuminating why its core arguments remain fiercely relevant. A book that does not merely instruct but fundamentally alters how one sees the sixty-four squares, it leaves the reader questioning every assumption they ever held about the game.