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Machgielis ("Max") Euwe (born 20 May 1901 in [[Amsterdam]]; died 26 November 1981 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch [[chess]] grandmaster and mathematician. He was world champion chess from 1935 to 1937. He was by far the best chess player of the Netherlands during a period of close to forty years. He was Dutch champion from 1921 until 1958, with interruptions in 1936, when he did not compete, and in 1954 when he lost out to [[Jan-Hein Donner]]. Max Euwe served as President of [[FIDE]], the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. Euwe was also a highly-regarded chess writer.
'''Machgielis (Max) Euwe''', (born 20 May 1901 at [[Watergrafsmeer]], near [[Amsterdam]]; died 26 November 1981 at Amsterdam), was a Dutch [[chess]] master who won the [[Chess World Championship]] (1935) from [[Alexander Alekhine]] in 1935. He lost his title to Alekhine in a 1937 return match. Euwe was a professor of [[mathematics]] at the [[University of Amsterdam]]. He was known for his wide knowledge of chess opening theory and was president of the [[Fédération Internationale des Échecs]] (FIDE) from 1970 through 1978.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Euwe Max Euwe]. Encyclopaedia Britannica.</ref>
 
It is likely that Euwe was the weakest world champion ever, because in 1935 he won the championship from [[Alexander Alekhine]] by the very narrow margin of 15.5-14.5, during a time that Alekhine had a serious drinking problem. Two years later Euwe was defeated by Alekhine in a rematch, also played in The Netherlands, by the convincing margin of 15.5-9.5. In the world championship of 1948 Euwe ended last. This tournament was played partly in [[The Hague]], and partly in [[Moscow]] and was won by [[Mikhail Botvinnik]].
 
Euwe never became a professional chess player, he stayed an amateur all his life. He received a masters degree in mathematics at the [[University of Amsterdam]] in 1923 and then became a high school [[mathematics]] teacher. In his spare time he prepared a dissertation and obtained a doctorate in mathematics in 1926 with supervisor the [[intuitionism|intuitionist]] [[L.E.J. Brouwer]]. His dissertation, entitled ''Differentiaalvarianten van twee covariante-vectorvelden met vier veranderlijken'' (Differential invariants of two [[covariant]] [[vector field]]s with four variables) was awarded the predicate ''Cum Laude'' (a predicate given in The Netherlands to the best 5 to 10 % of Ph.D theses).  
In 1929 he published a game-theoretical treatise about chess from an intuitionistic point of view entitled ''Mengentheoretische Betrachtungen über das Schachspiel'' (Set theoretic considerations of the game of chess).
 
In later years, after having stopped with competitive chess, Euwe worked in mathematics and informatics. In 1964 he became adjunct professor in the "methodology of the automatic information processing" at the Netherlands Economical Institute of [[Rotterdam]] and full professor in the same subject at the Catholic Economical Institute of [[Tilburg]] (now [[Erasmus University]] and [[Tilburg University]], respectively).


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Machgielis (Max) Euwe, (born 20 May 1901 at Watergrafsmeer, near Amsterdam; died 26 November 1981 at Amsterdam), was a Dutch chess master who won the Chess World Championship (1935) from Alexander Alekhine in 1935. He lost his title to Alekhine in a 1937 return match. Euwe was a professor of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. He was known for his wide knowledge of chess opening theory and was president of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) from 1970 through 1978.[1]

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  1. ↑ Max Euwe. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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