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Max Euwe
Machgielis "Max" Euwe was a Dutch chess player, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion, a title he held from 1935 until 1937. He served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978.
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science · Dutch chess grandmaster (1901–1981) · chess player · mathematician · chess official · writer · computer scientist · university teacher · also Max Euwe, Machgielis Euwe, Euwe
Born 20 May 1901 · Died 26 November 1981 · Q173714
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2026· 1 entry
1981· 1 entry
Died 1981-11-26.
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1979· 1 entry
Euwe was promoted to Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau
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1977· 1 entry
When Rohini Khadilkar became the first female player to compete in the Indian Chess Championship, some players objected to her being in the tournament because she was female; her father wrote to Euwe, and Euwe ruled that
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1976· 2 entries
World championship contender Viktor Korchnoi sought political asylum in the Netherlands
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Euwe supported FIDE's decision to hold the 1976 Chess Olympiad in Israel, which the Soviet Union did not recognize as a country, although the Soviets had won the 1964 Olympiad which had also been held in Israel
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1973· 1 entry
Accepted the Soviets' demand that Bent Larsen and Robert Hübner, the two strongest non-Soviet contenders (Fischer was now champion), should play in the Leningrad Interzonal tournament rather than the weaker one in Pet
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1972· 1 entry
Euwe was the last World Chess Champion not born in the Russian Empire or Soviet Union
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1970· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1970–1978).
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1957· 1 entry
Euwe played a short match against 14-year-old future world champion Bobby Fischer, winning one game and drawing the other
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1951· 1 entry
Winning ahead of Pilnik and Rossolimo with a score of +7=2
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1950· 1 entry
FIDE granted Euwe the title of international grandmaster on its inaugural list
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1946· 1 entry
Euwe was considered by some to have a moral right to the position of world champion, based at least partially on his clear second-place finish in the great tournament at Groningen in 1946, behind Mikhail Botvinnik
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1939· 1 entry
By Harcourt, Brace and Company, and was republished by Dover in 1975 (ISBN 0-486-23111-9)
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1937· 1 entry
Also played in the Netherlands, by the lopsided margin of 15½–9½
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1936· 2 entries
When Euwe, then world champion, did not compete; and Jan Hein Donner in 1954
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Euwe was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau
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1935· 3 entries
After 30 games played in 13 different cities around the Netherlands over a period of 80 days, Euwe defeated Alekhine by 15½–14½, becoming the fifth World Chess Champion
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Awarded world chess champion (1935).
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Career landmark: world chess champion (1935–1937).
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1933· 1 entry
Max Euwe challenged Alekhine to a championship match
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1932· 2 entries
3–1, played to help Euwe prepare for his upcoming match with Salo Flohr
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Euwe drew a match with Flohr 8–8, and was equal second with Flohr, behind Alekhine, at a major tournament in Bern
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1928· 1 entry
And 1928‒29 respectively, scoring 4½/10 in each match (+2−3=5 in the first match; +1−2=7 in the second match)
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1927· 1 entry
9½/13 at Stockholm 1937 for a bronze medal, 8/12 at Dubrovnik 1950, 7½/13 at Amsterdam 1954, 8½/11 at Munich 1958 for a silver medal at age 57, 6½/16 at Leipzig 1960, and finally 4/7 at Varna 1962
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1926· 2 entries
Started a family soon afterwards, and could play competitive chess only during school vacations, so his opportunities for top-level international chess competition were limited
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Studied at University of Amsterdam (1919–1926).
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1901· 1 entry
Born 1901-05-20.
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