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...Richard Reti, the great Czech grandmaster of the first half of the 20th century might be though to have proposed an answer in his response to a question as to how many moves he prepared ahead in a chess game. "Only one," he replied, "but it is always the best move...
...Reti was joking, of course. Grandmasters typically look about five moves ahead in a given position, and sometimes many more. But Reti's quip captures something at the heart of human chess-playing ability: intuition. And in so far as humans rely on intuition rather than calculation for the decisions of everyday life, his statement captures what is at the heart of human intelligence more generally...
...since the miraculous show of the royal family's Leonardo collection at Buckingham Palace in 1969. It accompanies an ambitious publishing project-the McGraw-Hill five-volume facsimile of the so-called Madrid codices: two recently discovered Leonardo notebooks, edited and translated by the late technological historian Ladislao Reti, to be published this month at $400 the set ($750 de luxe) and bound, rather bathetically, in red vinyl morocco. The codices themselves are incomparable...
...even with my attacking instincts, and my ability to upset my opponents by clever psychological tricks (my favorite was to say "that stinks!" every time they made a move) I began to drop behind the other prodigies on the block. While they were plumbing the mystical depths of Reti's opening, I still thought the Sicilian Defense exotic. And my parents were no help--never providing a proper home environment for chess study...
Died. Richard Reti, 40, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, famed chessman; in Prague. His record: 25 games of chess played while blindfolded...