Max Euwe: the life and the game

Max Euwe (1901-81) - 5-th world chess champion (1935-37). Among chess professionals for many years he was reputed to be a lover, and among chess fans have always been considered a true professional. Gentle and kind by nature, helped by the teaching in the women's Lyceum, and a girl's Kingdom in the home (three daughters!), he was resolute and uncompromising in the chess struggle. Chess, mathematics, computers - "life triathlon" by max Euwe, who managed to succeed in each of these areas, thanks to a special internal self-control, the ability to isolate the main thing at the moment and the incredible ability to concentrate all efforts to achieve the goal. From time to time he postponed blunt "chess spear" and was set honed to brilliance spear literary." His writings on the theory and practice of chess have become bestsellers. And today they are considered classics.