Hypermodern Chess

Hypermodern Chess was a new school of chess thought which promoted control of the center with distant pieces rather than the classical way (with pawns). The argument was that if you advance pawns too early, they would become objects of attack.

Leading proponents of the Hypermodern chess were Nimzowitsch, Reti, Tartakower and Breyer. The following famous game served to popularize Hypermodern chess enormously.

Reti – Capablanca
New York 1924

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. b4 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. g3 b6 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O d6 8. d3 Nbd7 9. Nbd2 e5 10. Qc2 Re8 11. Rfd1 a5 12. a3 h6 13. Nf1 c5 14. b5 Nf8 15. e3 Qc7 16. d4 Be4 17. Qc3 exd4 18. exd4 N6d7 19. Qd2 cxd4 20. Bxd4 Qxc4 21. Bxg7 Kxg7 22. Qb2+ Kg8 23. Rxd6 Qc5 24. Rad1 Ra7 25. Ne3 Qh5 26. Nd4 Bxg2 27. Kxg2 Qe5 28. Nc4 Qc5 29. Nc6 Rc7 30. Ne3 Ne5 31. R1d5 Black resigns 1-0