Max Euwe vs Alexander Alekhine (1935)

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Max Euwe vs Alexander Alekhine
Alekhine - Euwe World Championship Match (1935), Various Locations NED, rd 30, Dec-15
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Godes Variation (D21) · 1/2-1/2

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Sep-26-03		totoma: Why did Euwe agree draw? he has 6 pawns, alekin has only 4.

Sep-26-03		Chris00nj: Perhaps fatigue or perhaps Euwe only needed a draw? I dont see a draw here though.

Sep-26-03		Calli: The last game of the match. Euwe gave Alekhine a gift draw, but claimed the championship. 23...Bxd4+? 24.Qxd4! Rxd4 25.fxg4+

Jan-30-05		offramp: Alekhine had to win this last game to retain his title. This has been done a few times: Lasker in 1910, Botvinnik in 1951, Karpov in 1978, Kasparov in 1987 and Kramnik last year. (There may be others.) This effort by Alekhine is pretty poor, considering he was sober at the time. He should have played more sensibly and relied on Euwe's nerves (neuwes?)

Jan-30-05		WMD: Botvinnik drew the 24th game of his match with Bronstein to retain the title. In 1978 Karpov did not have to win what happened to be the final game. The match was set to continue until one player scored 6 wins.

Feb-13-05		offramp: <In 1978 Karpov did not have to win what happened to be the final game. The match was set to continue until one player scored 6 wins.> ...But it was the last game - and he did win it. I'm surprised I forgot about the Botvinnik game being hte 23rd of the match. The 24th game could therefore go down as a game that a player - Bronstein, in this case - had to win but failed.

Jun-29-06		gmgomes: In fact Euwe took advantage of Alekhine desperation here - trying to win with black. (and it was well done) As he only needed a draw, he did not force a win.

Oct-21-06		RookFile: That's exactly right. If you take the draw, you're the world champion. If you don't, and play on and win... you're the world champion. If you play on and lose.... you're an idiot. Max Euwe knew what he was doing. He took the draw in a won position, and got out of there. That's all he needed to become world champion.

Oct-21-06		MrPatzer: One could say that Alekhine is the real sportsman here for accepting the draw (costing him his title) instead of playing on in a basically lost position and hoping for a blunder.

Oct-21-06		plang: I think someone resigns when they think they have no chance to save the game. It has nothing to do with sportsmanship. The idea that it is "sporting" to resign in a position that you think you have a chance to save is anti-competitive.

Oct-21-06		Calli: The draw offer was a cheap trick by Alekhine to make the match look closer. The honorable thing to do would have been to resign. Euwe later said he regreted accepting the offer, but was excited to end the match.

Oct-21-06		aw1988: <The draw offer was a cheap trick by Alekhine to make the match look closer. The honorable thing to do would have been to resign.> Huh? Euwe still won this match, so why are you complaining? Cheap trick... match score close or not he still won, and last games have generally been underplayed...

Mar-27-07		GrandPatzerSCL: Alekhine should have kept playing.

Mar-28-07		setebos: Maybe he was drunk? :-)

Mar-28-07		slomarko: judging by his play he was never sobber during the match

Mar-28-07		Plato: More b.s. from the b.s.-machine...

Mar-28-07		slomarko: what is b.s. ?

Mar-28-07		Plato: It stands for "brilliant statements."

Mar-28-07		slomarko: i'd thank you for the praise but i sense some sarcasm in it.

Mar-28-07		Softpaw: Could be a comedy team in the making here!

Mar-28-07		crwynn: According to OMGP Euwe basically offered before the game to draw at any time, in which case Alekhine's cheeky-looking draw offer makes perfect sense. However those books are not exactly careful with their sources (and chess is so full of legends) so whether this actually happened I don't know. If Euwe really said that he regretted accepting the offer that would seem to contradict this story, since if it was true then he could not have honourably declined it.

Mar-28-07		crwynn: "Of course it was stupid for me to give him a draw in the last game, since I had a won game. But the draw was enough for me to win the World Title." - Euwe, from the interview exerpt given on this site, on the 1935 championship page.

Mar-28-07		slomarko: "Of course it was stupid for me to give him a draw in the last game, since I had a won game." yeah right. the truth is he had no idea how to win.

Mar-28-07		Plato: <slomarko> I don't know if you honestly believe that... but if you do, it only shows how little chess understanding you have, and also that you choose to insult great players without an inkling of knowledge as to how strong they were.

Mar-29-07		slomarko: btw <Plato> I've a question for you, do you think that during the soviet era any games were fixed at all and if yes which were those games?

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