Master Class Vol. 18: Max Euwe - OBS NEDLANNINGSBAR

OBS NEDLANNINGSBAR 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 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