McDonald: Starting out: The Reti improvers and make your opponent feel

and make your opponent feel uncomfortable

for the last part of the journey – a non-stop barrage of chess games to secure the necessary results

Introduction 5

‘What can be learned from them

one of today’s greatest Ruy Lopez experts

McDonald: Starting out: The Reti improvers and make your opponent feelThe Rti is a popular opening at all levels of chess. The great advantage it possesses over other openings is that it's a thematic system which can be adopted against many different defences, and because of this it's a firm favourite amongst those who prefer the understanding of ideas over dry memorization of moves. In this book, Grandmaster Neil McDonald examines the Rti by going back to basics, introducing the key moves and ideas, and taking care to