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Reti's Mate

Reti's Mate

This mating pattern is called Reti's Mate because it was famously used by Richard Réti in the early 20th century. Réti was an Austro-Hungarian chess player who became one of the principal proponents of hypermodernism in chess. He also pursued studies in mathematics and was particularly versed in number theory (hence the icon on the card above representing both the first letter of his surname and the symbol used in mathematics for the set of real numbers).

The pattern involves a Rook and a Bishop attacking a King with limited mobility. The Bishop delivers mate from a square adjacent to the King, while the Rook supports it. In the example in the diagram above, White uses the pattern and wins with 1.Bd8#.

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