CHESS PLAYER

Max Euwe

1901 - 1981

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Machgielis "Max" Euwe (Dutch: [ˈøːʋə]; May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Euwe has received more than 417,174 page views. His biography is available in 64 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Max Euwe is the 11th most popular chess player (down from 10th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 45th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Chess Player.

Max Euwe is most famous for being the first person to win the world chess championship three times.

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  • 67.92

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 64

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Max Euwe ranks 11 out of 461. Before him are Alexander Alekhine, Boris Spassky, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Anatoly Karpov, and Tigran Petrosian. After him are Garry Kasparov, Vasily Smyslov, François-André Danican Philidor, Adolf Anderssen, Nona Gaprindashvili, and Paul Morphy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Max Euwe ranks 29. Before him are Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, André Malraux, Mohamed Naguib, Jean Dubuffet, Joaquín Rodrigo, and Simon Kuznets. After him are Salvatore Quasimodo, Ricardo Zamora, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Andrey Vlasov, Henning von Tresckow, and Witold Pilecki. Among people deceased in 1981, Max Euwe ranks 7. Before him are Bob Marley, Anwar Sadat, Moshe Dayan, Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, and Soong Ching-ling. After him are Natalie Wood, Frederica of Hanover, Hideki Yukawa, William Holden, William Wyler, and Hans Adolf Krebs.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Max Euwe ranks 48 out of 1,646. Before him are Ruud Gullit (1962), Theo van Gogh (1857), Frank Rijkaard (1962), Paul Verhoeven (1938), Thomas Bernhard (1931), and Peter Debye (1884). After him are Christiaan Eijkman (1858), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Rem Koolhaas (1944), Frits Zernike (1888), Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870), and Theo van Doesburg (1883).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among chess players born in Netherlands, Max Euwe ranks 1. After him are Jan Timman (1951), Fenny Heemskerk (1919), and Jorden van Foreest (1999).

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