Short & Sweet Modern Reti by GM Simon Williams & by IM Richard Palliser

The Best Strategies from Different
Openings Unified Into
a Flexible System

Here’s a Short & Sweet course which combines the most effective strategies from different openings into a flexible weapon for White. So you can exploit any setup chosen by Black to maximize your advantage.

This sampler is brought to you by GM Simon Williams and IM Richard Palliser — two of the most prolific and most esteemed authors here on Chessable.

They’re the brilliant minds behind Lifetime Repertoires: Modern Reti Part 1 and Part 2.

Here, they took a couple of pages from the repertoire to show you the basics of the Reti Opening (1.Nf3), and how you can…

Make the Most Out of Your Versatile Start

…by steering the game to favorable versions of a different opening. Or to structures where you have the superior strategy.

The evergreen 1…d5 is covered. But so is 1…Nf6, 1…c5, 1…g6, and more.

You will learn how to:

🐴 Hammer the queenside in hypermodern fashion — Richard Réti’s original plan when he introduced the opening in 1923.

🐴 Transform your central pawn duo into an attack against the uncastled king like in 1.e4 e5 openings.

🐴 Barrel down the a1-h8 diagonal #1b3cowboy style, followed by Rg1 and g2-g4 to intensify the kingside pressure.

🐴 And transpose to favorable d4-setups, where your healthy pawn structure gives you a long-term edge.
All in just 23 MoveTrainer variations and 1.5 hours of video. Which means you can start playing the modern Réti in the next hour or two.

But a 23-line starter kit can only cover so much. So if you like the positions and strategies here, then we invite you inside Lifetime Repertoires: Modern Réti – Part 1 and Part 2.

The full 2-part repertoire covers nearly everything Black can throw your way, and the individual lines go much deeper, too.