Max Euwe became the fifth World Chess Champion after beating Alexander Alekhine in the 1935 World Championship match. A maths teacher by profession, Euwe remained an amateur throughout his life, but was still the best chess player in the Netherlands, and one of the world's best players. Euwe holds the record for the most Dutch national championships, with twelve. After winning the World Championship, Euwe was also the world's best player for a while. He lost the title again in 1937 in the rematch against Alexander Alekhine.

Euwe had a scientific approach to chess and was intensively involved with opening and endgame theory. In addition to his career as a player, he was very successful as the author of numerous textbooks. He later enjoyed a good reputation as president of the World Chess Federation. This video course traces the career of the fifth World Chess Champion, which began in the 1920s and lasted a little past his final participation in the Chess Olympiad in 1962 in Varna. In addition to four decades of chess history with all the great players of the time, this video course also teaches many instructive games of the world's best players, not least the famous ‘Pearl of Zandvoort’. In this video course, experts including Dorian Rogozenco, Mihail Marin, Karsten Müller and Oliver Reeh, examine the games of Max Euwe. Let them show you which openings Euwe chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame. Finally, you’ll get a glimpse of his tactical abilities in the Tactics section

• Video running time: 7 hours 43 minutes
• “Euwe Powerbooks”: Euwe’s opening repertoire as a variation tree
• Tactical training with 20 games

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• Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
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Contents

• Introduction
• Short biography
• Opening
• Introduction
• King's Indian Defence
• Sicilian: Scheveningen
• Slav Defence
• Open Spanish
• Strategy
• Introduction
• Game 1: Carlos Enrique Guimard - Max Euwe 1946
• Game 2: Tigran Petrosian - Anatoly Karpov 1975
• Game 3: Max Euwe - Richard Reti 1920
• Game 4: Heinrich Wolf - Max Euwe 1923
• Game 5: Alexander Alekhine - Max Euwe 1926
• Game 6: Max Euwe - Alexander Alekhine 1935
• Tactics
• Euwe - Graves 1919
• Euwe - O'Hanlon 1919
• Euwe - Berndtsson 1920
• Speijer - Euwe 1921
• Euwe - Loman 1922
• Olland - Euwe 1922
• Euwe - Lohr 1923
• Euwe - Carls 1928
• Yates - Euwe 1930
• Euwe - Alekhine 1934
• Euwe - Alekhine 1935
• Alexander - Euwe 1936
• Flohr - Euwe 1937
• Euwe - Flohr 1939
• Euwe - Landau 1939
• Bogoljubow - Euwe 1941
• Van den Hoek - Euwe 1942
• Euwe - Najdorf 1947
• Alexander - Euwe 1949
• Euwe - Stumpers 1950
• Euwe - Fischer 1957
• Endgame
• Game 1: Max Euwe - Alexander Alekhine 1935
• Game 2: Max Euwe - Alexander Alekhine 1935
• Game 3: Max Euwe - Alexander Alekhine 1934
• Game 4: Max Euwe - Jose Raul Capablanca 1938
• Game 5: Max Euwe - Jose Raul Capablanca 1928
• Game 6: Max Euwe - Jose Raul Capablanca 1929
• Game 7: Rudolf Spielmann - Alexander Alekhine 1925
• Game 8: Paul Keres - Max Euwe 1940
• Game 9: Max Euwe - Salo Landau 1938
• Game 10: Henry Grob - Max Euwe 1948
• Exercise
• Bonus
• All Games from Max Euwe
• Euwe Book with White
• Euwe Book with Black
• Training Questions