Chess player Max Euwe

Born:20/05/1901 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fide Title:26/11/1981 (Age 80) Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fide ID: Grandmaster
Federation: Holland
Maximum Elo: Holland
Elo: Holland
Classification: Holland
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Max Euwe is often, perhaps unfairly, considered the least-largest, or at least dominant, world chess champion. That is largely to the fact that the Dutchman was a semi-professional player, who had to adapt to his tournament appearances around the demands of his career as a math teacher. Euwe, however, dominated Dutch chess, winning every Dutch championship in which he participated between 1921 and 1952.

His international successes include the 1934 Zurich tournament, where he finished second tied with Flohr and inflicted the only defeat on the tournament winner, Alexander Alekhine. The same players were paired face-to-face in a World Championship match a year later, and despite starting their excellent theoretical preparation poorly, they helped them sensationally defeat the champion by 15.5:14.5. After that success Euwe also performed well in tournaments, for example, finished third, half a point behind Botvinnik and Capablanca but ahead of Alekhine in the 1936 Nottingham tournament. His reign was, however, very short, as he lost the rematch with Alekhine in 1937. Although the final result was crushing that was largely because Euwe lost four of the last five matches.

Max Euwe pasó a convertirse en presidente de la FIDE desde 1970 hasta 1978, presidiendo en la época en la que Bobby Fischer consiguió y después abandonó el trono del ajedrez. Él también fue un autor prolífico, publicando más de 70 libros sobre ajedrez.

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