How to play openings:Reti Opening

Can you tell me the best ways to play the Reti Opening

Post 1 is NOT the Reti.  It's Nimzovich's Attack (1.Nf3 and 2.b3)

The Reti is both Nf3 and c4 played with Black playing an early d5.

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4
1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 dxc4
1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6
1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6
1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 d5
1.c4 c6 2.Nf3 d5

Etc.

Basically, to qualify as a Reti, the following must happen:

1) White plays Nf3 and c4 early on

2) White does not play an early d4 (You'd be in some kind of QP Opening, like 1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.d4 is a Queen's Gambit Declined)

3) Black has played an early d5.  Some books might call cases of an early ...f5 as "Reti vs Dutch", but it's not the Reti Opening (proper)

Note that without the d5 push, you don't have a Reti.  For example, lines like 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 or 1.Nf3 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.g3 c5 is the English Opening, not the Reti.

Post 2 is not a Reti.  It's an English.

I really like the Reti (1.Nf3,d5 2.c4) and Nimzo-Larsen attacks (either 1.b3 or 1.Nf3 with 2.b3) but the problem is black has too much of a free hand so you won't always get the kind of game you want whereas if you open with 1.e4 at worse you'll have a Petroff or go into a Poisoned Pawn Najdorf where black knows the positions far better than you do, but 1.d4 seems like it limits black enough to get a good imbalanced game going without running out of steam too early like many 1.e4 lines.  I have Beating the Open Games by Marin and The Berlin Defence from Chess Stars and it seems like black can equalize quite fast vs. 1.e4.  

Yeah there's a fine line between the English and Reti.  I only transpose to symmetrical English as black when I'm planning on setting up a Hedgehog.  

It's Great.

This is reti

#6 is perfect Reti!

The reti involves usually a double fianchetto, no d4 by White at least early on in the game and flank expansions.

Something like this:

The best way to play the Reti is to open 1.c4 and only if Black plays ..c6 (and/or ..e6) continue with Nf3, g3, etc.  1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 d4 has put the Reti proper move order out of business these days, IMHO.

Unless you show to us a clear refutation I will not buy the fact that a reversed benoni is bad for White.

The fact that Black is able to play ..Nc6 without ..c5 makes up for the loss of tempo, for the same reason that 1.d4 c5 2.d5 is considered an inferior Benoni for Black.  You may feel free not to "buy" it if you want.

Thanks. I wont. Im creative, humble and have faith in Chess.

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