Zugzwang Editions

Volume 05White to play and draw7 half-moves

The Réti
Study

White
Richard Réti
Black
composed study
Played
Published, 1921
Result
½–½ · Draw by force, move 4

( Published, 1921 )

Four pieces on an empty board, and White looks hopelessly slow. The king walks a diagonal that chases two goals at once — the black pawn and its own — and on a chessboard a diagonal is no longer than a straight line.

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Final position

Start position

Study

White to play and draw. Scroll to play the solution.

  1. 1.Kg7h4
  2. 2.Kf6Kb6
  3. 3.Ke5Kxc6
  4. 4.Kf4

Zugzwang Editions · Volume 05The Réti StudyPublished 1921 · ½–½

The print

Every move,
one sheet

Folded loose inside the book: the whole game drawn on one sheet, 7 lines, one of them red.

Book
170 × 240 mm, 32 pages, Swiss binding
Print
420 × 594 mm (A2), uncoated 170 g
Edition
500 copies, numbered by hand
Price
CHF 32, shipping included in Switzerland
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