Max Euwe, cinquième champion du monde d'échecs, est souvent sous-estimé par rapport à ses prédécesseurs. Ce livre compile cinquante-deux de ses parties commentées, illustrant sa carrière et son époque. Il séduira les joueurs de tous niveaux et évoque des figures légendaires du monde des échecs.
Focusing on his remarkable journey to becoming World Champion, the author recounts his experiences and triumphs in the chess world, particularly against the formidable Alekhine. Highlighted are significant victories, including a stunning knight sacrifice at Zurich 1934 and the celebrated 'Pearl of Zandvoort' from 1935, which solidified his legacy in chess history. The book not only showcases Euwe's strategic prowess but also reflects on his status as a national hero in the Netherlands.
The acclaimed classic about the 1972 Fischer-Spassky World Championship Match finally available in English.
Twenty-five chess games chosen, arranged, and annotated to help amateurs learn how to avoid a variety of weak strategic and tactical moves. Selected, with commentary, by World Chess Champion Max Euwe and by Walter Meiden, an amateur player, the games point out graphically how the chess master exploits characteristic errors of the amateur.
On March 24, 1946, the 4th world chess champion, Alexander Alekhine, passed away. He was the first -- and still the only -- champion to die while holding the title. To select a new champion, a powerful quintuple round-robin was held in The Hague and in Moscow. The 5 strongest players of the era took part in a grueling two-month, 25-round tournament, one of the most important events in the history of chess. It produced a new world champion, Mikhail Botvinnik, and was the start of a new FIDE regulated era. This splendid account of an epic championship includes a review of all previous encounters between the participants, background information, as well as all the games of the tournament, deeply annotated by Euwe. You are invited to follow Mikhail Botvinnik, Vassily Smyslov, Sam Reshevsky, Paul Keres and Max Euwe as they battle for the title and the chess world starts its journey through the post-World War II era and the beginning of the Soviet hegemony.
This collection focuses on republishing classic works from the early 1900s and earlier, which have become rare and costly. The editions are designed to be affordable while maintaining high quality, featuring the original text and artwork to preserve the authenticity of these timeless pieces.
This is a book on basic chess strategy written by Dr. Max Euwe while he was World Chess Champion. Unlike so many subsequent books by Euwe, there is no co-author to this book. Euwe himself wrote this one. The topics covered are: I. Strategy and Tactics. II. Strategy: General principles. - The greatest possible field of action for the pieces. - As much choice as possible of intervening III. Strategy: Special principles. - Taking the initiative where one is strongest. - Directing the attack in general on fixed pawns. IV. Tactics: Combinations in General. - Mating combinations. - Open-field combinations. V. Mating combinations. - Direct mate combinations. - Break-up combinations. - Penetrative combinations. - Lateral combinations. VI. Open-field combinations. - Combinations for gain in material. - Focal-point combinations. - Pinning combinations. - Unmasking combinations. - Overload combinations. - Desperado combinations. - Cumulative combinations. VII. Compound combinations. VIII. End-game combinations. - Forcing combinations. - Advancing combinations. - Promotion combinations. Dr. Max Euwe was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937. He played all of the great players from Lasker to Fischer in tournaments and studied all of their games in great detail. He knew more about them and their games than anybody else.
