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Alkmaar Zaanstreek, better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ, is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaanstreek. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the Netherlands, and hosts home matches at the AFAS Stadion. AZ has won the Eredivisie twice, in 1980–81 and 2008–09. ZAS Motors offers quality used cars and pickup trucks for sale in La Mesa, CA. Call us today for more information or browse our online showroom!
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USMNT forward Jozy Altidore has a new club and with it an opportunity for us to learn a bit more about Holland's Eredivisie. That's the league where Oguchi Onyewu spent the second half of the 2010-11 season and where players like Earnie Stewart, DaMarcus Beasley, and Michael Bradley found success. With a USMNT player behind the scenes and another on the field, here's what you need to know about AZ.
Altidore joins AZAfter time spent on loan from Villarreal with Hull City and Bursaspor, Jozy Altidore completed a transfer to AZ on July 15th. It's the Stewart connection to AZ that's interesting. Though he never played for the club, Stewart is their Director of Football. That's a position he originally held with NAC Breda before moving to Alkmaar in June of last year. Registrieren synonym.
Alkmaar as a soccer cityAlkmaar, in Holland. It's been a city since 1254, known for its cheese market. Seriously, it's the home of Holland's Cheese Museum as well as the Stove Museum and the National Beer Museum. What? You country doesn't have all of those things? Unless you're really into Dutch pop music or politics, we're going to safetly assume a list of famous Alkmaarians (we Anglicized that, so apologies if it means something else) would be wasted on you. 
Alkmaar ZaanstreekAlkmaar Zaanstreek, founded in 1967 and known far and wide as simply AZ. Since AZ is the acronym, calling the club AZ Alkmaar or AZ Alkmaar Zaanstreek would be somewhat redundant. Anyway, like so many European clubs the AZ we now know were once two clubs, helpfully named Alkmaar and Zaanstreek. AZ have won the Eredivise twice: 1981 and 2009, finishing second on two occasions: 1980 and 2006. They were UEFA Cup runners-up in 1981 and made the semifinals in 2005. But it hasn't all been cheese, beer, and stoves for AZ, relegated in 1988 and not returning to the topflight for ten years. 
How Tough Is The Eredivisie?Ask any Euro-enthusiast and they would go ahead and fill in Ajax and PSV Eindhoven as the teams most likely to in Holland. Fair enough, since combined they've won the title 40 times since the Eredivisie was organized in 1951. Add in Feyenoord, and you've accounted for all but three titles. AZ won two of those three, putting them in 4th-place overall, but distant compared to the league's true elite. All of that to say, it's not an easy league if you're a club that doesn't happen to be named Ajax, PSV, or Feyenoord. 
AFAS StadionOccasions ZaanstreekAZ plays at the 17,023-seater AFAS Stadion, eventually to be expanded to seat 30,000 fans. Though it's normally associated with American stadiums, AZ ran into sponsor bankruptcy issues, eventually righting things with shirt and stadium sponsor AFAS, a computer company. Fans weren't exactly amused, referring to the stadium as AZ Stadion or Victorie Stadion. Why Victorie? Other than cheese, beer, and stoves, Alkmaar was the site of a major battle in the 80 years war… in 1573. Fast forward a few centuries and AZ's nice new home opened in 2006, replacing the wonderfully named Alkmaarderhout. The problem with the Hout (their name, not ours) is that it only sat 8,914. It no longer exists. Though it has nothing to do with AZ, since we're not likely to get the opportunity anywhere else, there's a stadium in Holland's second division called the Mitsubishi Forklift Stadion. Any candidates for worse stadium name are gladly welcomed.
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Max Euwe
Number of games in database: 1,671
Years covered: 1911 to 1981
Overall record: +824 -255 =528 (67.7%)*
 * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.64 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.
MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
Orthodox Defense(105)
Nimzo Indian(98)
French Defense(58)
Ruy Lopez(53)
King's Indian(48)
Queen's Gambit Declined(42)
With the Black pieces:
Ruy Lopez(122)
Slav(76)
Sicilian(68)
Ruy Lopez, Open(61)
King's Indian(52)
Queen's Pawn Game(50)

NOTABLE GAMES:[what is this?]
Geller vs Euwe, 1953 0-1
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948 0-1
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 1-0
Euwe vs Najdorf, 1953 1-0
Euwe vs Loman, 1923 1-0
Euwe vs Reti, 1920 1-0
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 1-0
Euwe vs S Van Mindeno, 1927 1-0
Euwe vs Fischer, 1957 1-0
Szabo vs Euwe, 1946 0-1
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:[what is this?]
Alekhine - Euwe World Championship Match (1935)
Euwe - Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937)
FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS:[what is this?]
Weston (1924)
Hastings 1930/31 (1930)
Hastings 1923/24 (1923)
Bournemouth (1939)
Euwe - Bogoljubov (1941)
Maastricht (1946)
London B (1946)
Zaanstreek (1946)
Gothenburg B (1920)
Zurich (1934)
Berne (1932)
Groningen (1946)
Nottingham (1936)
Wertheim Memorial (1951)
Karlsbad (1929)

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Match Euwe (International)!by amadeus
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Euwe Owe Meby fredthebear
Max Euwe - The Biography (Munninghoff)by Qindarka
MAXimum Teacher Compiled by Garreby fredthebear
Veliki majstori saha 18 EUWE (Marovic)by Chessdreamer
World Champion - Euwe (I.Linder/V.Linder)by Qindarka
From My Games 1920 - 1937by Benzol
My Games (Euwe)by Qindarka
Max Euwe - From Steinitz to Fischer, Part 2by Chessdreamer
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparovby LionHeart40
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparovby JoseTigranTalFischer
Max Euwe - From Steinitz to Fischer, Part 2by FRoeten
Max Euwe - From Steinitz to Fischer, Part 2by demirchess
GAMES ANNOTATED BY EUWE:[what is this?]
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1937

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MAX EUWE
(born May-20-1901, died Nov-26-1981, 80 years old) NetherlandsPRONUNCIATION:
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Machgielis (Max) Euwe was the fifth World Champion. 
Early years
Senza spese. Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, then an independent municipality outside Amsterdam. His mother, Elizabeth van der Meer, taught him the moves when he was four. Euwe was a student of mathematics at Amsterdam University, where he graduated with honours in 1923, gaining his doctorate in 1926, after which he taught mathematics in Rotterdam and later in Amsterdam. Euwe was the younger brother of Willem Euwe.
Tournaments:
Euwe won 102 tournaments during his career, squeezing them - and his other tournaments - into the little spare time he had during a busy professional career as a teacher, mathematician and lecturer, and while raising a family. His first international foray was in the Hastings Victory tournament after WW1 in the summer of 1919 where he placed fourth. He won the Dutch National Championship on five consecutive occasions in 1921, 1924, 1926, 1929 and 1933, and then on six more consecutive occasions in 1938, 1939, 1942, 1947, 1948 and 1952. His 12th win was in 1955; these 12 wins of the Dutch Championship are still a record, three wins ahead of the next most prolific winner, Jan Timman. Euwe was a regular competitor in the Hastings tournament, winning it thrice, in 1923-24, 1930-31, 1934-35. In 1928, he became the Second World Amateur Champion after Hermanis Karlovich Mattison (Paris 1924). Other important results in Euwe's career included a win at Wiesbaden 1925, placing second behind Alexander Alekhine at Berne 1932, second behind Alekhine (whom he beat) at Zurich 1934, second at Zandvoort 1936 behind Reuben Fine, third at Nottingham 1936, half a point behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Jose Raul Capablanca but ahead of Alekhine, first ex aequo at Amsterdam 1936 with Fine, first at Bad Nauheim-Stuttgart-Garmisch 1937, ahead of Alekhine, equal fourth with Alekhine and Samuel Reshevsky at AVRO 1938, first at Amsterdam-Hilversum-The Hague in 1939, and first at Budapest in 1940. After the Second World War, he came first in London in 1946 and had his best tournament result, second behind Botvinnik at Groningen in 1946, a result which contributed to his receiving an invitation to play in the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948).
Matches
Soon after Euwe won the Dutch Championship for the first time in 1921, he played and drew a short match with Geza Maroczy with 2 wins, 8 draws, and 2 losses. He played and lost what amounted to a short training match with Alekhine in 1926-7, a few months before the Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927), by +2 =5 -3. In 1928, Euwe defeated Edgar Colle in a match with 5 wins and 1 draw. A few days later he played Efim Bogoljubov in a match and lost, scoring 2 wins, 5 draws, and 3 losses. After winning Hastings 1930-1 ahead of Capablanca, he played Capablanca in a match, but lost with 8 draws and 2 losses. Soon after his good result in Berne 1932, he drew a match with Salomon Flohr with 3 wins, 10 draws, and 3 losses. Later in 1932, Euwe won a training match with Rudolf Spielmann in 1932, with 2 wins and 2 draws, but lost another training match with Spielmann in 1935. He played a match with Paul Keres in The Netherlands in 1939-40, losing 6½-7½ (+5 =3 -6). In 1941, Euwe traveled to Carlsbad and defeated Bogoljubov in a match with 5 wins, 3 draws, and 2 losses. He drew a match in 1949 with Vasja Pirc (+2, =6, -2) Euwe - Pirc (1949). 
In 1957, Euwe played a short informal match against 14-year-old future world champion Robert James Fischer, winning one game and drawing the other. His lifetime score against Fischer was one win, one loss, and one draw.
World Championship
In 1935 Alexander Alekhine selected him as his opponent for the world title, the last time in which a challenger was selected until Garry Kasparov selected Vladimir Kramnik to challenge him for the Kasparov - Kramnik Classical World Championship Match (2000). The match was held in Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Gouda, Groningen, Baarn, 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven, Zeist, Ermelo, and Zandvoort, and played in 23 different venues. Euwe won the match (+9 =13 -8) on 15 December 1935 to become the fifth World Champion. This was also the first world championship match in which the players had seconds to help them with analysis during adjournments. In 1937 he lost the Euwe - Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937) (+4 =11 -10). Their lifetime tally was +28 -20 =38 in favour of Alekhine. After Alekhine's death in 1946, Euwe was invited to contest the 1948 World Championship Match Tournament, and although he came last in that event, he continued to play in the world championship cycle until the Zurich Candidates of 1953.
Olympiads
He played top board for The Netherlands in seven Olympiads between 1927 to 1962, scoring 10½/15 at London 1927, 9½/13 at Stockholm 1937 to win bronze, 8/12 at Dubrovnik 1950, 7½/13 at Amsterdam 1954, 8½/11 at Munich 1958 to win silver medal (aged 57), 6½/16 at Leipzig 1960, and 4/7 in his last Olympiad at Varna in 1962. His Olympiad aggregate was 54½/87 for 62.6 per cent.
Legacy and testimonials
While he was World Champion, Euwe handed FIDE the power to organise the World Championship, apart from the return match with Alekhine that had already been agreed upon.
In 1957, while visiting the United States to study computer technology, he played two unofficial chess games in New York against Bobby Fischer, winning one and drawing the second. A couple of years later, he became director of The Netherlands Automatic Data Processing Research Centre in 1959 and from 1961 to 1963, chairman of a committee set up by Euratom to examine the feasibility of programming computers to play chess. In 1964, Euwe was appointed to a chair in an automatic information processing in Rotterdam University and, following that, at Tilburg University. He retired as professor at Tilburg in 1971. A fuller description of Euwe's non-chess career can be found at Max Euwe (kibitz #517), courtesy of .
From 1970-1978, Euwe was a peripatetic President of FIDE, visiting more than 100 countries at his own expense, promoting chess world wide and helping add over 30 new member countries to FIDE. During his terms as FIDE President, he exercised immense diligence and effort to ensure the Match of the Century, the Spassky - Fischer World Championship Match (1972) took place. While Euwe was successful in that endeavour, similarly Herculean efforts to enable the Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975) eventually foundered.
Euwe wrote over 70 chess books, including , , , and . Many of his books are still in print, enabling several generations of good Dutch players to develop their games from reading his works. His bibliography can be gleaned from the following links at http://www.openisbn.com/author/Max_.. ((English); and http://www.maxeuwe.nl/opauteur.html (Dutch).
Euwe died in 1981, age 80. The Max Euwe Plein (square) (near the Leidseplein) in Amsterdam has a large chess set and statue, where the 'Max Euwe Stichting' is located in a former jailhouse. It has a Max Euwe museum and a large collection of chess books. Euwe's granddaughter, Esmé Lammers, has written a children's book called Lang Leve de Koningin (Long live the Queen), which is a fairy tale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father. Lammers filmed the story in 1995 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113598/.)
• 'Strategy requires thought; tactics requires observation.' - Max Euwe
• 'Does the general public, do even our friends the critics realize that Euwe virtually never made an unsound combination? He may, of course, occasionally fail to take account of an opponent's combination, but when he has the initiative in a tactical operation his calculation is impeccable.' – Alexander Alekhine
• 'He is logic personified, a genius of law and order. One would hardly call him an attacking player, yet he strides confidently into some extraordinarily complex variations.' – Hans Kmoch
• 'There's something wrong with that man. He's too normal.' – Bobby Fischer
Sources
(1) Wikipedia article: 2nd Chess Olympiad; (2) Wikipedia article: Hastings International Chess Congress; (3) http://members.tripod.com/HSK_Chess.. (4) http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.a..
Wikipedia article: Max Euwe
Last updated: 2019-05-20 09:39:57

 page 1 of 67; games 1-25 of 1,671 
GameResultMovesYearEvent/LocaleOpening
Euwe vs NN1-0111911AmsterdamC80 Ruy Lopez, Open
Jacques Davidson vs Euwe0-1501912Simul, 30bC01 French, Exchange
R Wielinga vs Euwe0-1461912Amsterdam-North HollandC00 French Defense
J W te Kolste vs Euwe0-1291913VAS simulD00 Queen's Pawn Game
Euwe vs A A de Graaff1-0181915NSB 2nd classC30 King's Gambit Declined
Euwe vs Weenink1-0211918VAS AmsterdamC53 Giuoco Piano
G Zittersteyn vs Euwe0-1281918Arnhem-BD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
G Kroone vs Euwe½-½381919Amsterdam m1C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
Euwe vs G Kroone1-0451919Amsterdam m1D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
G Kroone vs Euwe1-0161919Amsterdam m1C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
Euwe vs G Kroone0-1141919Amsterdam m1B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
G Kroone vs Euwe½-½371919Amsterdam m2A84 Dutch
Euwe vs G Kroone1-0201919Amsterdam m2C33 King's Gambit Accepted
Euwe vs G Kroone1-0431919Amsterdam m1C54 Giuoco Piano
G Kroone vs Euwe0-1351919Amsterdam m1C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
G Kroone vs Euwe½-½161919Amsterdam m2C29 Vienna Gambit
Euwe vs G Kroone1-0141919Amsterdam m2C56 Two Knights
G Kroone vs Euwe1-0451919Amsterdam m1C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
Euwe vs G Kroone0-1281919Amsterdam m2D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
G Kroone vs Euwe1-0261919Amsterdam m1C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
Euwe vs G Kroone½-½261919Amsterdam m1D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
Euwe vs E Palmer1-0261919Hastings-CC55 Two Knights Defense
Euwe vs W A C Craig1-0261919Hastings-CC54 Giuoco Piano
Euwe vs B J van Trotsenburg0-1191919HaarlemC29 Vienna Gambit
Euwe vs J J O'Hanlon1-0291919Hastings-CC54 Giuoco Piano
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Alkmaar Zaanstreek, better known as AZ Alkmaar or simply AZ, is a Dutch professional football club from Alkmaar and the Zaanstreek. The club plays in the Eredivisie, the highest professional football league in the Netherlands, and hosts home matches at the AFAS Stadion. AZ has won the Eredivisie twice, in 1980–81 and 2008–09. ZAS Motors offers quality used cars and pickup trucks for sale in La Mesa, CA. Call us today for more information or browse our online showroom!
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USMNT forward Jozy Altidore has a new club and with it an opportunity for us to learn a bit more about Holland's Eredivisie. That's the league where Oguchi Onyewu spent the second half of the 2010-11 season and where players like Earnie Stewart, DaMarcus Beasley, and Michael Bradley found success. With a USMNT player behind the scenes and another on the field, here's what you need to know about AZ.
Altidore joins AZAfter time spent on loan from Villarreal with Hull City and Bursaspor, Jozy Altidore completed a transfer to AZ on July 15th. It's the Stewart connection to AZ that's interesting. Though he never played for the club, Stewart is their Director of Football. That's a position he originally held with NAC Breda before moving to Alkmaar in June of last year. Registrieren synonym.
Alkmaar as a soccer cityAlkmaar, in Holland. It's been a city since 1254, known for its cheese market. Seriously, it's the home of Holland's Cheese Museum as well as the Stove Museum and the National Beer Museum. What? You country doesn't have all of those things? Unless you're really into Dutch pop music or politics, we're going to safetly assume a list of famous Alkmaarians (we Anglicized that, so apologies if it means something else) would be wasted on you. 
Alkmaar ZaanstreekAlkmaar Zaanstreek, founded in 1967 and known far and wide as simply AZ. Since AZ is the acronym, calling the club AZ Alkmaar or AZ Alkmaar Zaanstreek would be somewhat redundant. Anyway, like so many European clubs the AZ we now know were once two clubs, helpfully named Alkmaar and Zaanstreek. AZ have won the Eredivise twice: 1981 and 2009, finishing second on two occasions: 1980 and 2006. They were UEFA Cup runners-up in 1981 and made the semifinals in 2005. But it hasn't all been cheese, beer, and stoves for AZ, relegated in 1988 and not returning to the topflight for ten years. 
How Tough Is The Eredivisie?Ask any Euro-enthusiast and they would go ahead and fill in Ajax and PSV Eindhoven as the teams most likely to in Holland. Fair enough, since combined they've won the title 40 times since the Eredivisie was organized in 1951. Add in Feyenoord, and you've accounted for all but three titles. AZ won two of those three, putting them in 4th-place overall, but distant compared to the league's true elite. All of that to say, it's not an easy league if you're a club that doesn't happen to be named Ajax, PSV, or Feyenoord. 
AFAS StadionOccasions ZaanstreekAZ plays at the 17,023-seater AFAS Stadion, eventually to be expanded to seat 30,000 fans. Though it's normally associated with American stadiums, AZ ran into sponsor bankruptcy issues, eventually righting things with shirt and stadium sponsor AFAS, a computer company. Fans weren't exactly amused, referring to the stadium as AZ Stadion or Victorie Stadion. Why Victorie? Other than cheese, beer, and stoves, Alkmaar was the site of a major battle in the 80 years war… in 1573. Fast forward a few centuries and AZ's nice new home opened in 2006, replacing the wonderfully named Alkmaarderhout. The problem with the Hout (their name, not ours) is that it only sat 8,914. It no longer exists. Though it has nothing to do with AZ, since we're not likely to get the opportunity anywhere else, there's a stadium in Holland's second division called the Mitsubishi Forklift Stadion. Any candidates for worse stadium name are gladly welcomed.
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Max Euwe
Number of games in database: 1,671
Years covered: 1911 to 1981
Overall record: +824 -255 =528 (67.7%)*
 * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.64 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.
MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
Orthodox Defense(105)
Nimzo Indian(98)
French Defense(58)
Ruy Lopez(53)
King's Indian(48)
Queen's Gambit Declined(42)
With the Black pieces:
Ruy Lopez(122)
Slav(76)
Sicilian(68)
Ruy Lopez, Open(61)
King's Indian(52)
Queen's Pawn Game(50)

NOTABLE GAMES:[what is this?]
Geller vs Euwe, 1953 0-1
Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948 0-1
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 1-0
Euwe vs Najdorf, 1953 1-0
Euwe vs Loman, 1923 1-0
Euwe vs Reti, 1920 1-0
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 1-0
Euwe vs S Van Mindeno, 1927 1-0
Euwe vs Fischer, 1957 1-0
Szabo vs Euwe, 1946 0-1
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:[what is this?]
Alekhine - Euwe World Championship Match (1935)
Euwe - Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937)
FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS:[what is this?]
Weston (1924)
Hastings 1930/31 (1930)
Hastings 1923/24 (1923)
Bournemouth (1939)
Euwe - Bogoljubov (1941)
Maastricht (1946)
London B (1946)
Zaanstreek (1946)
Gothenburg B (1920)
Zurich (1934)
Berne (1932)
Groningen (1946)
Nottingham (1936)
Wertheim Memorial (1951)
Karlsbad (1929)

GAME COLLECTIONS:[what is this?]
Match Euwe (International)!by amadeus
Match Euwe (International)!by docjan
Euwe Owe Meby fredthebear
Max Euwe - The Biography (Munninghoff)by Qindarka
MAXimum Teacher Compiled by Garreby fredthebear
Veliki majstori saha 18 EUWE (Marovic)by Chessdreamer
World Champion - Euwe (I.Linder/V.Linder)by Qindarka
From My Games 1920 - 1937by Benzol
My Games (Euwe)by Qindarka
Max Euwe - From Steinitz to Fischer, Part 2by Chessdreamer
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparovby LionHeart40
My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparovby JoseTigranTalFischer
Max Euwe - From Steinitz to Fischer, Part 2by FRoeten
Max Euwe - From Steinitz to Fischer, Part 2by demirchess
GAMES ANNOTATED BY EUWE:[what is this?]
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1937

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MAX EUWE
(born May-20-1901, died Nov-26-1981, 80 years old) NetherlandsPRONUNCIATION:
[what is this?]
Machgielis (Max) Euwe was the fifth World Champion. 
Early years
Senza spese. Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, then an independent municipality outside Amsterdam. His mother, Elizabeth van der Meer, taught him the moves when he was four. Euwe was a student of mathematics at Amsterdam University, where he graduated with honours in 1923, gaining his doctorate in 1926, after which he taught mathematics in Rotterdam and later in Amsterdam. Euwe was the younger brother of Willem Euwe.
Tournaments:
Euwe won 102 tournaments during his career, squeezing them - and his other tournaments - into the little spare time he had during a busy professional career as a teacher, mathematician and lecturer, and while raising a family. His first international foray was in the Hastings Victory tournament after WW1 in the summer of 1919 where he placed fourth. He won the Dutch National Championship on five consecutive occasions in 1921, 1924, 1926, 1929 and 1933, and then on six more consecutive occasions in 1938, 1939, 1942, 1947, 1948 and 1952. His 12th win was in 1955; these 12 wins of the Dutch Championship are still a record, three wins ahead of the next most prolific winner, Jan Timman. Euwe was a regular competitor in the Hastings tournament, winning it thrice, in 1923-24, 1930-31, 1934-35. In 1928, he became the Second World Amateur Champion after Hermanis Karlovich Mattison (Paris 1924). Other important results in Euwe's career included a win at Wiesbaden 1925, placing second behind Alexander Alekhine at Berne 1932, second behind Alekhine (whom he beat) at Zurich 1934, second at Zandvoort 1936 behind Reuben Fine, third at Nottingham 1936, half a point behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Jose Raul Capablanca but ahead of Alekhine, first ex aequo at Amsterdam 1936 with Fine, first at Bad Nauheim-Stuttgart-Garmisch 1937, ahead of Alekhine, equal fourth with Alekhine and Samuel Reshevsky at AVRO 1938, first at Amsterdam-Hilversum-The Hague in 1939, and first at Budapest in 1940. After the Second World War, he came first in London in 1946 and had his best tournament result, second behind Botvinnik at Groningen in 1946, a result which contributed to his receiving an invitation to play in the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948).
Matches
Soon after Euwe won the Dutch Championship for the first time in 1921, he played and drew a short match with Geza Maroczy with 2 wins, 8 draws, and 2 losses. He played and lost what amounted to a short training match with Alekhine in 1926-7, a few months before the Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927), by +2 =5 -3. In 1928, Euwe defeated Edgar Colle in a match with 5 wins and 1 draw. A few days later he played Efim Bogoljubov in a match and lost, scoring 2 wins, 5 draws, and 3 losses. After winning Hastings 1930-1 ahead of Capablanca, he played Capablanca in a match, but lost with 8 draws and 2 losses. Soon after his good result in Berne 1932, he drew a match with Salomon Flohr with 3 wins, 10 draws, and 3 losses. Later in 1932, Euwe won a training match with Rudolf Spielmann in 1932, with 2 wins and 2 draws, but lost another training match with Spielmann in 1935. He played a match with Paul Keres in The Netherlands in 1939-40, losing 6½-7½ (+5 =3 -6). In 1941, Euwe traveled to Carlsbad and defeated Bogoljubov in a match with 5 wins, 3 draws, and 2 losses. He drew a match in 1949 with Vasja Pirc (+2, =6, -2) Euwe - Pirc (1949). 
In 1957, Euwe played a short informal match against 14-year-old future world champion Robert James Fischer, winning one game and drawing the other. His lifetime score against Fischer was one win, one loss, and one draw.
World Championship
In 1935 Alexander Alekhine selected him as his opponent for the world title, the last time in which a challenger was selected until Garry Kasparov selected Vladimir Kramnik to challenge him for the Kasparov - Kramnik Classical World Championship Match (2000). The match was held in Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Gouda, Groningen, Baarn, 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven, Zeist, Ermelo, and Zandvoort, and played in 23 different venues. Euwe won the match (+9 =13 -8) on 15 December 1935 to become the fifth World Champion. This was also the first world championship match in which the players had seconds to help them with analysis during adjournments. In 1937 he lost the Euwe - Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937) (+4 =11 -10). Their lifetime tally was +28 -20 =38 in favour of Alekhine. After Alekhine's death in 1946, Euwe was invited to contest the 1948 World Championship Match Tournament, and although he came last in that event, he continued to play in the world championship cycle until the Zurich Candidates of 1953.
Olympiads
He played top board for The Netherlands in seven Olympiads between 1927 to 1962, scoring 10½/15 at London 1927, 9½/13 at Stockholm 1937 to win bronze, 8/12 at Dubrovnik 1950, 7½/13 at Amsterdam 1954, 8½/11 at Munich 1958 to win silver medal (aged 57), 6½/16 at Leipzig 1960, and 4/7 in his last Olympiad at Varna in 1962. His Olympiad aggregate was 54½/87 for 62.6 per cent.
Legacy and testimonials
While he was World Champion, Euwe handed FIDE the power to organise the World Championship, apart from the return match with Alekhine that had already been agreed upon.
In 1957, while visiting the United States to study computer technology, he played two unofficial chess games in New York against Bobby Fischer, winning one and drawing the second. A couple of years later, he became director of The Netherlands Automatic Data Processing Research Centre in 1959 and from 1961 to 1963, chairman of a committee set up by Euratom to examine the feasibility of programming computers to play chess. In 1964, Euwe was appointed to a chair in an automatic information processing in Rotterdam University and, following that, at Tilburg University. He retired as professor at Tilburg in 1971. A fuller description of Euwe's non-chess career can be found at Max Euwe (kibitz #517), courtesy of .
From 1970-1978, Euwe was a peripatetic President of FIDE, visiting more than 100 countries at his own expense, promoting chess world wide and helping add over 30 new member countries to FIDE. During his terms as FIDE President, he exercised immense diligence and effort to ensure the Match of the Century, the Spassky - Fischer World Championship Match (1972) took place. While Euwe was successful in that endeavour, similarly Herculean efforts to enable the Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975) eventually foundered.
Euwe wrote over 70 chess books, including , , , and . Many of his books are still in print, enabling several generations of good Dutch players to develop their games from reading his works. His bibliography can be gleaned from the following links at http://www.openisbn.com/author/Max_.. ((English); and http://www.maxeuwe.nl/opauteur.html (Dutch).
Euwe died in 1981, age 80. The Max Euwe Plein (square) (near the Leidseplein) in Amsterdam has a large chess set and statue, where the 'Max Euwe Stichting' is located in a former jailhouse. It has a Max Euwe museum and a large collection of chess books. Euwe's granddaughter, Esmé Lammers, has written a children's book called Lang Leve de Koningin (Long live the Queen), which is a fairy tale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father. Lammers filmed the story in 1995 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113598/.)
• 'Strategy requires thought; tactics requires observation.' - Max Euwe
• 'Does the general public, do even our friends the critics realize that Euwe virtually never made an unsound combination? He may, of course, occasionally fail to take account of an opponent's combination, but when he has the initiative in a tactical operation his calculation is impeccable.' – Alexander Alekhine
• 'He is logic personified, a genius of law and order. One would hardly call him an attacking player, yet he strides confidently into some extraordinarily complex variations.' – Hans Kmoch
• 'There's something wrong with that man. He's too normal.' – Bobby Fischer
Sources
(1) Wikipedia article: 2nd Chess Olympiad; (2) Wikipedia article: Hastings International Chess Congress; (3) http://members.tripod.com/HSK_Chess.. (4) http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.a..
Wikipedia article: Max Euwe
Last updated: 2019-05-20 09:39:57

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GameResultMovesYearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Euwe vs NN1-0111911AmsterdamC80 Ruy Lopez, Open
2. Jacques Davidson vs Euwe0-1501912Simul, 30bC01 French, Exchange
3. R Wielinga vs Euwe0-1461912Amsterdam-North HollandC00 French Defense
4. J W te Kolste vs Euwe0-1291913VAS simulD00 Queen's Pawn Game
5. Euwe vs A A de Graaff1-0181915NSB 2nd classC30 King's Gambit Declined
6. Euwe vs Weenink1-0211918VAS AmsterdamC53 Giuoco Piano
7. G Zittersteyn vs Euwe0-1281918Arnhem-BD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
8. G Kroone vs Euwe½-½381919Amsterdam m1C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
9. Euwe vs G Kroone1-0451919Amsterdam m1D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
10. G Kroone vs Euwe1-0161919Amsterdam m1C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
11. Euwe vs G Kroone0-1141919Amsterdam m1B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
12. G Kroone vs Euwe½-½371919Amsterdam m2A84 Dutch
13. Euwe vs G Kroone1-0201919Amsterdam m2C33 King's Gambit Accepted
14. Euwe vs G Kroone1-0431919Amsterdam m1C54 Giuoco Piano
15. G Kroone vs Euwe0-1351919Amsterdam m1C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
16. G Kroone vs Euwe½-½161919Amsterdam m2C29 Vienna Gambit
17. Euwe vs G Kroone1-0141919Amsterdam m2C56 Two Knights
18. G Kroone vs Euwe1-0451919Amsterdam m1C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
19. Euwe vs G Kroone0-1281919Amsterdam m2D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
20. G Kroone vs Euwe1-0261919Amsterdam m1C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
21. Euwe vs G Kroone½-½261919Amsterdam m1D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
22. Euwe vs E Palmer1-0261919Hastings-CC55 Two Knights Defense
23. Euwe vs W A C Craig1-0261919Hastings-CC54 Giuoco Piano
24. Euwe vs B J van Trotsenburg0-1191919HaarlemC29 Vienna Gambit
25. Euwe vs J J O'Hanlon1-0291919Hastings-CC54 Giuoco Piano
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May-21-17
thegoodanarchist: Happy Birthday Champ!
I find it kind of sad that no one has yet posted on Euwe's page today, and the day is almost over and he is today's POTD.
Nice photo, too. I wonder where it is from..
Nov-23-17
Arturo2nd: Euwe is perhaps my favorite player. A complete gentleman whose books provide excellent instruction. His tenure as FIDE president was eventful and he did much to promote the growth of the game at his own expense. As an amateur who played in his spare time it is remarkable that he could compete with the professionals. Some of his wins rank among the greatest games ever played. Alekhine may have drank too much during the match or simply had a crisis of form, but the two matches are of great theoretical importance for the Slav defense. It is a little silly to talk of the 'weakest world champion ever.' All were great players in their time and would crush the vast majority of us mere mortals. So would non-champs like Rubinstein, Keres, Stein, and Korchnoi. Think about who the so called weak champions were: Smyslov, Petrosian, Spassky, Euwe, Steinitz, or Topalov. Kramnik is ranked 7th in the world today at the age of 42 and had an ELO rating of 2803 in September of this year.
'World Champions are distinguished by something special, otherwise the would simply not be champions..Champions - whether they be future or former - at any stage of their careers belong to the most interesting and distinctive of opponents.' - Grandmaster Y.P. Geller
Mar-30-18Monocle: I've never heard Smyslov called a 'weak champion'. He was clearly the best player in the world in the mid 1950s, and won two very strong candidates tournaments by clear margins.
Mar-30-18
plang: I have often dreamed of having a career as a 'weak champion'.
Mar-30-18
perfidious: Well after the fact, even Botvinnik acknowledged that Smyslov was the strongest player in the world during the period mentioned by .
Mar-30-18sudoplatov: Euwe was a true amateur in that he derived his living from other than chess play. He didn't really have time to study as much as Alekhine whereas, Capablanca didn't take time to do the study.
Mar-30-18sudoplatov: Some lifetime winning percentages (which is strongly dependent on the opposition.)Steinitz: 66.3
Lasker: 73.2
Capablanca: 74.0
Alekhine: 74.1
Euwe: 67.7
Botvinnik: 68.4
Smyslov: 61.7
Petrosian: 64.0
Spassky: 62.5
Fischer: 72.3
Karpov: 65.0
Kasparov: 69.8
Kramnik: 61.4
Khalifman: 59.1
Anand: 60.9
Ponomariov: 59.4
Kasimdzhanov 61.9
Topalov: 57.9
Carlsen: 62.3
A few also-rans:
Tarrasch: 63.3
Janowski: 55.4
Schlecter: 61.9
Rubinstein: 66.7
Marshall: 57.7
Keres: 70.1
Korchnoi: 62.4
Apr-02-18Monocle: Was the name 'Machgielis' ever at all common in the Netherlands? If you google it, almost all the results are about Euwe, but then again, I am only searching for English results.
Apr-02-18
MissScarlett: Search for Dutch results and report back.
Apr-02-18sneaky pete: Machgielis is a variation of Michael. It's very, very uncommon, less than 5 bearers found in 2014:http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naa..
Feb-11-19Chessonly: Mathematician + Grandmaster + World Champion by beating Alekhine. https://www.chessonly.com/games-of-..
May-20-19sneaky pete: 'Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam' in the biography is wrong.Watergraafsmeer was an independent municipality in 1901. It became part of Amsterdam only as of January 1, 1921. The text should be something like 'Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam.'
Jun-22-19
thegoodanarchist: Fischer said of Euwe, 'There's something wrong with that man. He's too normal.' Well, he even looks normal!
Jun-22-19
OhioChessFan: Either the pic is mirrored, or he wore a wedding band on his right hand
Jun-22-19sneaky pete: I looked at several pictures in Münninghof's biography and yes, the ring is on his right hand.
Jun-22-19
thegoodanarchist: 
OK, either that isn't quite normal, or it's normal in The Netherlands.
Jun-22-19
thegoodanarchist: Another hypothesis is that he lost his left ring finger in an alligator attack, but I find it a rather dubious explanation.
Jun-22-19
Gregor Samsa Mendel: https://www.mytriorings.com/cultura..
Jun-23-19sneaky pete: The convention in The Netherlands is to wear an engagement ring on the right hand and a wedding ring on the left one.Page 484 of Münninghoff's 1976 Dutch edition of his Euwe biography shows a 1976 photograph of Euwe and his wife at the dinner table. Euwe wears a ring on his right hand ring finger and Mrs. Euwe idem on the left. My theory is that, on his wedding day, Euwe discovered that he couldn't get the engagement ring off. Since there was no alligator handy to bite it off, he deciced to leave the thing there and promote it to wedding ring. Dr. Euwe was always first and foremost a practical man and not half as normal as some people claim he was.
Jun-23-19
thegoodanarchist: Well, keep in mind that Fischer was the one to pass the judgement.Compared to Fischer,  people appear to be rather normal.
Aug-26-19sneaky pete: For those still groping in the dark: there is no  in Euwe and the  in his name sounds like the  in room, as one can hear it pronounced in this educational video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsC..
Sep-01-19login: 
Late noot
Modern Key piece (1936)
http://redeenportret.nl/portret/4c6..
'Euwe was brought up a Reformed Protestant.'
Alexander Münninghoff, Max Euwe: The Biography, p.57
∝ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch..
'Dutch Catholics wear their wedding bands on their left hand (and engagement ring right). Protestants on their right hand (and engagement ring left).' Alina, 2018https://www.costerdiamonds.com/blog..
Roughly simplified
https://www.mytriorings.com/cultura..
The King explains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E7..

Jul-29-20Helios727: Would the 'w' in Euwe's name be pronounced like an English 'w' or an English 'v' ?
Jul-30-20
Stonehenge: An English 'w'.
Google Translate does a pretty good job of pronouncing Euwe. Just translate Euwe from Dutch into another language and click on the speaker.
Jul-30-20
MissScarlett: < My theory is that, on his wedding day, Euwe discovered that he couldn't get the engagement ring off.>I'm more interested in the wedding night. Did he get his rocks off?
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