Immortal Alekhine: The Knight torture, Richard Reti vs Alexander Alekhine
Richard Reti vs Alexander Alekhine
"Roughin' Reti"
Baden-Baden (1925), Baden-Baden GER, rd 8, Apr-25
Hungarian Opening: Reversed Alekhine (A00) · 0-1
The book Alekhine Move by Move, mentions that on the 38th move, Alekhine did have an alternative winning move, but I don't recall what it was...
....not that it really mattered!
I think it was Andy Soltis who wrote somewhere that Alekhine had to have seen at least 13 moves deep into his combination, not counting all the candidate moves in the possible side variations. He therefore considers this game to be the greatest example of calculation of any player ever.
According to an eye-witness - source Bruce Hayden's book "Of Cabbages and Kings" - Alekine scrambled up the pieces which placed Reti in a psychological bind. He was the one strongly objecting to the irregularity and it would have been very strange and defeatist to make a great fuss and then lamely take the half-point.
Another suspicious story, the one with Alekhine consciously claiming an illegal draw in order to trick Réti into being overconfident. And there are various versions of the score, with 18.Bh1, 20.Bh1 and 22.Bh1.
the most reliable source is Réti himself, who in the Buenos Aires newspaper La Prensa gave the 22.Bh1 version and simply said that he repeated moves to buy time, and after 21...Bg4, Alekhine offered a draw which Réti declined, and then went on to play 22.Bh1 in order not to create a threefold repetition. This makes complete sense to me; I think that this story of psychological trickery and drama should be considered yet another myth which most chess writers are so fond of.
Also, the game has been cited as another score that Alekhine fudged to look better. Although he did this in a few instances, here I think he simply took the score published in the Deutsche and Wiener Schachzeitung, which is the version given here on chessgames.com (20.Bh1). French chess periodicals gave an even shorter version with 18.Bh1; if he really wanted to fudge that score, he could and should have taken those; but he must have remembered the move repetition and thus chose the German version. Of course, this is just guessing, but this seems to make the most sense to me.......
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