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Machgielis "Max" Euwe was a Dutch chess grandmaster, mathematician, author, and chess administrator. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion . Euwe served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. May 1901 – 26. November 1981
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Famous Max Euwe Quotes

“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.”

Max Euwe

“Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.”

Max Euwe

Max Euwe, in: Fred Reinfeld (1956) Why You Lose at Chess, p. 180.

“I honestly feel very humble when I study Capablanca's games.”

Max Euwe

Source: David Hooper, ‎Kenneth Whyld (1996) The Oxford companion to chess, p. 69

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