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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 387,162 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Euwe is the 10th most popular chess player, the 45th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 44th 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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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Max Euwe ranks 10 out of 374Before him are Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, Emanuel Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, and Nona Gaprindashvili. After him are Tigran Petrosian, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, François-André Danican Philidor, Paul Morphy, and Samuel Reshevsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Max Euwe ranks 28Before him are Princess Märtha of Sweden, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Joaquín Rodrigo, Margaret Mead, Jean Dubuffet, and Simon Kuznets. After him are Andrey Vlasov, Milton H. Erickson, Witold Pilecki, Mohamed Naguib, Robert Bresson, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva. Among people deceased in 1981, Max Euwe ranks 9Before him are Jacques Lacan, Albert Speer, Moshe Dayan, Eugenio Montale, Natalie Wood, and William Wyler. After him are Soong Ching-ling, Frederica of Hanover, Hans Adolf Krebs, William Holden, Hideki Yukawa, and René Clair.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Max Euwe ranks 45 out of 1,427Before him are Louis van Gaal (1951), Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (1870), Jan van Riebeeck (1619), Marco van Basten (1964), Thomas Bernhard (1931), and André Rieu (1949). After him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Johan de Witt (1625), Theo van Doesburg (1883), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Frank Rijkaard (1962), and Christiaan Eijkman (1858).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Netherlands

Among chess players born in Netherlands, Max Euwe ranks 1After him are Jan Timman (1951).