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Reti's famous draw for White

Reti's famous draw for White

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When I first saw this position I couldn't believe White could draw this but it was in a puzzle book so I knew it was possible.

White to move and draw.

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If you don't have notation on your board, White is going up and Black is going down.

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This famous study has an interesting story.
It first appeared with the well known diagram
(as shown above,) composer uncredited in a chess
column by Becker on the 11th September 1921.

A few months later on the 4th of December 1921
Reti himself published it but used this diagram



With Black to play.

It appears that Reti composed the idea and
showed it to a few friends. Becker got hold of
it thought it looked better with his diagram,
the one that is now days printed all the books.
Reti did not know it had been published before
and used his original setting with Black to play.

More details here; https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/reti1.html

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@greenpawn34

I did not know that 😄

Thanks

Edit, I do agree with Becker about his alteration looking better but he shouldn't have copied Reti's idea.