Sharp and interesting, ha.
It can happen:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/sharp-english-slav
That's not even a Reti.
Of course it is. There are quite a few ways to transpose to this system that don't involve playing Nf3 on the first move.
It's a Reti by transposition man... How you get there doesn't matter.
Openings are classified by the final opening position reached not the first move. If you put it through chessbase or some other database it will change from English to Reti because this position comes from that opening. This can be seen in articles as well including the informant.
For example if you put something in like 1.c4 d5 2.d4 it would be labeled a queen's gambit and not an English. But anyway the point is you can still have complicated games with a little cooperation.
Yeah, you can't transpose to an opening that starts 1. Nf3 without ever playing Nf3.
Oh no. I didn't bother to look at the post. It really was labeled wrong. Sorry all.
It would be nice if someone could kindly show us more continuation lines to play from the "reti" opening moves.
It's certainly interesting, but don't you think it's a little passive? More for positional or tactics players? I prefer a more aggressive forceful opening, queens gambit, or london opening.
How is the London system aggressive?
Please re-read the post, I said I prefer to play the QG, if I don't play the QG I will more than likely play the london, I didn't say this was an aggressive opening, QG was what I was attempting to reference.
I'm an ex-english/reti player. Those games are slow and boring. I used to play them because I get to 'skip' alot of theory - but it yields very dull games.
I figured if I'm not having fun playing it - why play it? I play chess for fun. ;)