Remembering world chess champion Max Euwe

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On 26 November it will be thirty years, since former Dutch Chess World Champion Dr. Max Euwe passed away. To honour his memory two groups of four will play a double round robin tournament from 14 to 20 November in the “Openbare Bibliotheek” (public library) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

The organisation has brought together an international field of male and female players both young and old: Fridrik Olafsson (Iceland), Paul van der Sterren (NL), Zhaoqin Peng (NL), Pia Cramling (Sweden), Stuart Conquest (England), Monica Socko (Poland), Keti Arakhamia (Scotland) and Robin van Kampen (NL). 

Grandmaster Jan Timman will open the event on Sunday, 13 November at 14.00 by giving a simul. Additionally, there will be lectures in the evening throughout the week about Max Euwe, computer chess and artificial intelligence, which will be held by renowned experts GM Hans Ree and Dr. Jos Uiterwijk. On Wednesday afternoon, there will be a fun children’s chess session with two-time American women’s chess champion Jennifer Shahade and a viewing of “Long Live the Queen”, a chess film directed by Euwe’s granddaughter Esmé Lammers.


The Max Euwe Chess Tournament looks back on a wealth of chess history but keeps a firm view towards the future too, as is reflected in the participants. The round robins and side events will connect us with important men and women from the chess world and with these great talents we shall celebrate the life of chess promoter Euwe. The games of the first round will start on Monday, 14 November at 13.00. You can follow the games live on the tournament website www.euwetoernooi.nl. On the website you can also find a lot of information about Max Euwe and the participants in the Max Euwe Tournament.

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Remembering World Chess Champion Max Euwe with another World Chess Champion Vishy Anand!

Chess news and chess trivia blog (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2010

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This is a real cool piece of chess news report we found on www.chessvibes.com. We have the video here and you can check the full report with lots of photos.

On December 15, 1935, Max Euwe became World Chess Champion. To celebrate this, the Max Euwe Centrum organized festivities on Saturday, December 18, which included a lecture and a simul by World Champion Viswanathan Anand from India. Dutch GMs Anish Giri and Jan Smeets also gave a lecture and simuls, and performed an exhibition blitz match.

The chess cake served at the event. Oh! we are so hungry now.

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