World Chess Championship 1937
Defending champion | Challenger | |||||
Max Euwe | Alexander Alekhine | |||||
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Born 20 May 1901 36 years old | Born 31 October 1892 44 years old | |||||
← 1935 1948 → |
The 1937 World Chess Championship was played between Max Euwe and Alexander Alekhine in the Netherlands from October 5 to December 4, 1937. Alekhine regained his title in a rematch of the 1935 championship match.[1][2]
This was the last World Championship where the world champion had control of the title and could set match conditions; Alekhine died in 1946 and FIDE stepped in to take control of the World Championship. This was also the last World Championship to take place before the outbreak of World War II two years later; the tournament would resume in 1948.
Results
The first player to win six games and score more than 15 points would be champion. Euwe led by 1 point after game 5 but Alekhine scored 4½ points from the next 5 games to take a virtually insurmountable lead. Over the next 10 games Euwe managed to reduce the deficit by 1 point before Alekhine again scored 4½ points from the next 5 games to win the title.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Wins | Points | |
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Alexander Alekhine (France) | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 10 | 15½ |
Max Euwe (Netherlands) | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9½ |
Alekhine won the Championship.
References
External links
- 1937 World Chess Championship at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages
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