biography
| name: |
Euwe, Max (Machgielis)
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pronunciation:
[oewuh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1901–81)
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| biography:
| Dutch mathematician and chess grand master (the only amateur to win the world championship in the chess history), born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was world champion from 1935, when he had a surprise victory over Alekhine, until 1937, when Alekhine, who had adopted a regime of rigid self-discipline, won the return match. Euwe then went back to lecturing on mathematics and mechanics, and in 1964–71 taught the methodology of automated information processing in Rotterdam and Tilburg. He was president of FIDE (the International Chess Federation), 1970–8, arbitrating over the turbulent Fischer–Spassky world championship match in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1972. He wrote several books on chess, which were translated into several languages. |
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