Reti's Opening
1.Nf3
d5
2.c4
c6
Prefering a transposition to a queen's pawn opening
3.d4
Now a Slav Defense
3...Nf6
4.e3
Solid but passive, blocking in the Bc1
4...e6
5.Bd3
The good bishop to the strong, natural square
5...Nbd7
Anticipating Nc3 and e3-e4, with the idea of exchanges on e4 and then Nd7-f6
6.Nc3
dxc4
The Merin Variation, taking the Bd3 off its nice perch but ceding the center to white.
7.Bxc4
b5
8.Bd3
Black's manoeuver has gained some time, but there's no good way to prevent e3-e4
8...a6
9.e4
The threat is now e4-e5
9...c5
Counter-attacking the center
10.e5
cxd4
The threat of exf6 permits the knight to become a marauder
11.Nxb5
Nxe5
12.Nxe5
axb5
13.0-0
Rellstab's Attack, a Botvinnik favorite in the 1930s. [13.Qf3!?
Ra5
(13...Qa5+
14.Ke2
Bd6
15.Qc6+
Ke7
16.Bd2
b4
17.Qxd6+
Kxd6
18.Nc4+
Kd7
19.Nxa5
Rxa5
20.Rhc1
Ba6
21.Bxa6
Rxa6
22.Rc4
Nd5
23.Rxd4
Rb8
24.Kd3
h5
25.Kc4
b3
26.a4
Rc6+
27.Kd3
Rc2
28.Rb1
Rbc8
29.a5
R8c6
30.Ke2
Rd6
31.Ke1
Nc7
32.Rxd6+
Kxd6
33.Bc3
f6
34.Ra1
Na6
35.Ra3
Kc7
36.Rxb3
Nc5
37.Rb5
Na4
38.Bd4
e5
39.Kd1
Rc4
40.Be3
Kc6
41.Rb8
Kc7
1-0 Reshevsky,S-Botvinnik,M/Moscow 1955/EXT 99 (41)) 14.0-0
b4
15.Bf4
Be7
16.Rfc1
0-0
17.Qh3
Rc5
18.Rxc5
Bxc5
19.Bg5
h6
20.Ng4
Be7
21.Bxf6
gxf6
22.Nxh6+
Kg7
23.Qg4+
Kh8
24.Qh5
Kg7
25.Nxf7
Rh8
26.Qg6+
Capablanca-Levenfish, 1-0, 1935]
13...Qd5
14.Qe2
Holding the Ne5
14...Ra5!?
15.f4
Securing the Ne5 in the face of b5-b4, and holding back on the development of the Bc1, probably now to d2
15...Bd6
16.Bd2
b4
17.a3
Another pawn sac, but opening the board for white's active pieces
17...Bxe5
18.fxe5
Qxe5
19.Qf3
Dangerous. Black cannot 0-0 owing to Bxb4, and white has the dangerous c6 entry square for the queen.
19...Qd5
20.Qg3
Ra7
Diagram
21.Rxf6
gxf6
22.Qg7
Rf8
23.Bxb4
crunch! the threat is Qxf8
23...Re7
24.Rc1
Bb7
25.Rc5
trapping the queen! 1-0