The chess games of Max Euwe

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Euwe

Max Euwe
Number of games in database: 1,590
Years covered: 1911 to 1981
Overall record: +792 -245 =515 (67.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      38 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Orthodox Defense (103)
    D63 D52 D50 D66 D55
Nimzo Indian (91)
    E38 E33 E32 E22 E39
French Defense (56)
    C13 C12 C11 C07 C02
Ruy Lopez (49)
    C86 C83 C85 C91 C78
King's Indian (40)
    E60 E67 E62 E66 E68
English (36)
    A15 A13 A12 A14 A10

With the Black pieces:

Ruy Lopez (120)
    C83 C77 C68 C80 C82
Slav (75)
    D12 D15 D19 D17 D10
Sicilian (68)
    B83 B88 B56 B57 B28
Ruy Lopez, Open (60)
    C83 C80 C82 C81
Queen's Pawn Game (47)
    D02 A46 D00 D04 A45
Nimzo Indian (47)
    E59 E34 E26 E41 E53

Repertoire Explorer

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 1-0
   Tartakower vs Euwe, 1948 0-1
   Geller vs Euwe, 1953 0-1
   Euwe vs Najdorf, 1953 1-0
   Euwe vs Loman, 1923 1-0
   Euwe vs Reti, 1920 1-0
   Euwe vs Alekhine, 1935 1-0
   Euwe vs Fischer, 1957 1-0
   Euwe vs S Van Mindeno, 1927 1-0
   L Stumpers vs Euwe, 1946 0-1

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   Alekhine - Euwe World Championship Match (1935)
   Euwe - Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937)
   FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Weston (1924)
   Hastings 1923/24 (1923)
   Hastings 1930/31 (1930)
   Bournemouth (1939)
   Maastricht (1946)
   Zaanstreek (1946)
   London B (1946)
   Gothenburg B (1920)
   Berne (1932)
   Zurich (1934)
   Zandvoort (1936)
   Groningen (1946)
   Nottingham (1936)
   Wertheim Memorial (1951)
   Karlsbad (1929)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Match Euwe (International)! by amadeus
   Biography - Euwe (Munninghoff) by Qindarka
   MAXimum Teacher by Garre
   Law and Order by Garre
   From My Games 1920 - 1937 by Benzol
   World Champion Nr. 05: Euwe by Olanovich
   My Great Predecessors by Garry Kasparov by LionHeart40
   number 2 by Frodo7
   Max Euwe by blues66
   Garry Kasparov's On My Great Predecessors (2) by AdrianP
   E F G Players by fredthebear
   On My Great Predecessors 2 (Kasparov) by Qindarka
   1935 World Chess Championship by Penguincw
   fav Kramnik & Euwe games by guoduke

GAMES ANNOTATED BY EUWE: [what is this?]
Euwe vs Alekhine, 1937

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MAX EUWE (born May-20-1901, died Nov-26-1981, 80 years old) Netherlands	PRONUNCIATION:		[what is this?]
Machgielis (Max) Euwe was the fifth World Champion. Early years Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer in Amsterdam. His mother, Elizabeth van der Meer, taught him the moves when he was four. He was a student of mathematics at Amsterdam University where he graduated with honours in 1923, gaining his doctorate in 1926, after which he taught mathematics in Rotterdam and later in Amsterdam. Younger brother of Willem Euwe. Tournaments: Euwe won 102 tournaments during his career, squeezing them - and his other tournaments - into the little spare time he had during a busy professional career as a teacher, mathematician and lecturer, and while raising a family. His first international foray was in the Hastings Victory tournament after WW1 in the summer of 1919 where he placed 4th. He won the Dutch National Championship on five consecutive occasions in 1921, 1924, 1926, 1929 and 1933, and then on six more consecutive occasions in 1938, 1939, 1942, 1947, 1948 and 1952. His 12th win was in 1955; these 12 wins of the Dutch Championship are still a record, three wins ahead of the next most prolific winner, Jan Timman. Euwe was a regular competitor in the Hastings tournament, winning it three times in 1923-24, 1930-31, 1934-35. In 1928 he became the Second World Amateur Champion after Hermanis Karlovich Mattison (Paris 1924). Other important results occurred when he won Wiesbaden 1925, placed 2nd behind Alexander Alekhine at Berne 1932, 2nd behind Alekhine (whom he beat) at Zurich 1934, 2nd at Zandvoort 1936 behind Reuben Fine, 3rd at Nottingham 1936 half a point behind Mikhail Botvinnik and Jose Raul Capablanca but ahead of Alekhine, =1st at Amsterdam 1936 with Fine, 1st at Bad Nauheim-Stuttgart-Garmisch 1937, ahead of Alekhine, =4th with Alekhine and Samuel Reshevsky at AVRO 1938, 1st at Amsterdam-Hilversum-The Hague in 1939, and 1st at Budapest in 1940. After the Second World War, he came 1st in London in 1946 and had his best tournament result, second behind Botvinnik at Groningen in 1946, a result which contributed to his receiving an invitation to play in the FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948). Matches Soon after Euwe won the Dutch Championship for the first time in 1921, he played and drew a short match with Geza Maroczy with 2 wins, 8 draws, and 2 losses. He played and lost what amounted to a short training match with Alekhine in 1926-7, a few months before the Capablanca - Alekhine World Championship Match (1927), by +2 =5 -3. In 1928 Euwe defeated Edgar Colle in a match with 5 wins and 1 draw. A few days later he played Efim Bogoljubov in a match and lost, scoring 2 wins, 5 draws, and 3 losses. After winning Hastings 1930-1 ahead of Capablanca, he played Capablanca in a match, but lost with 8 draws and 2 losses. Soon after his good result in Berne 1932, he drew a match with Salomon Flohr with 3 wins, 10 draws, and 3 losses. Later in 1932, he won a training match with Rudolf Spielmann in 1932, with 2 wins and 2 draws, but lost another training match with Spielmann in 1935. He played a match with Paul Keres in The Netherlands in 1939-40, losing 6�-7� (+5 =3 -6). In 1941 Euwe traveled to Carlsbad and defeated Bogoljubov in a match with 5 wins, 3 draws, and 2 losses. He drew a match in 1949 with Vasja Pirc (+2, =6, -2) Euwe - Pirc (1949). In 1957, Euwe played a short informal match against 14-year-old future world champion Robert James Fischer, winning one game and drawing the other. His lifetime score against Fischer was one win, one loss, and one draw. World Championship In 1935 Alexander Alekhine selected him as his opponent for the World title, the last time in which a challenger was selected until Garry Kasparov selected Vladimir Kramnik to challenge him for the Kasparov - Kramnik World Championship Match (2000). The match was held in Amsterdam, The Hague, Delft, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Gouda, Groningen, Baarn, 's-Hertogenbosch, Eindhoven, Zeist, Ermelo, and Zandvoort, and played in 23 different venues. Euwe won the match (+9 =13 -8) on 15 December 1935 to become the fifth World Champion. This was also the first world championship match in which the players had seconds to help them with analysis during adjournments. In 1937 he lost the Euwe - Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937) (+4 =11 -10). Their lifetime tally was +28 -20 =38 in favour of Alekhine. After Alekhine's death in 1946, Euwe was invited to contest the 1948 World Championship Match Tournament, and although he came last in that event, he continued to play in the world championship cycle until the Zurich Candidates of 1953. Olympiads He played top board for The Netherlands in seven Olympiads between 1927 to 1962, scoring 10�/15 at London 1927, 9�/13 at Stockholm 1937 to win bronze, 8/12 at Dubrovnik 1950, 7�/13 at Amsterdam 1954, 8�/11 at Munich 1958 to win silver medal (aged 57), 6�/16 at Leipzig 1960, and 4/7 in his last Olympiad at Varna in 1962. His Olympiad aggregate was 54�/87 for 62.6 per cent. Legacy and testimonials While he was World Champion, Euwe handed FIDE the power to organise the World Championship, apart from the return match with Alekhine that had already been agreed upon. In 1957, while visiting the United States to study computer technology, he played two unofficial chess games in New York against Bobby Fischer, winning one and drawing the second. A couple of years later, he became director of The Netherlands Automatic Data Processing Research Centre in 1959 and from 1961 to 1963, chairman of a committee set up by Euratom to examine the feasibility of programming computers to play chess. In 1964, he was appointed to a chair in an automatic information processing in Rotterdam University and, following that, at Tilburg University. He retired as professor at Tilburg in 1971. A fuller description of his non-chess career can be found at Max Euwe (kibitz #517), courtesy of <achieve>. From 1970-1978 he was a peripatetic President of FIDE, visiting more than 100 countries at his own expense, promoting chess world wide and helping add over 30 new member countries to FIDE. During his terms as FIDE President, he exercised immense diligence and effort to ensure the Match of the Century, the Fischer - Spassky World Championship Match (1972) occurred. While he was successful in that endeavour, similarly Herculean efforts to enable the Karpov - Fischer World Championship Match (1975) eventually foundered. Euwe wrote over 70 chess books, including <The Road to Chess Mastery>, <Judgement and Planning in Chess>, <The Logical Approach to Chess>, and <Strategy and Tactics in Chess Play>. Many of his books are still in print, enabling several generations of good Dutch players to develop their games from reading his works. His bibliography can be gleaned from the following links at http://www.openisbn.com/author/Max_... ((English); and http://www.maxeuwe.nl/opauteur.html (Dutch). He died in 1981, age 80. The Max Euwe Plein (square) (near the Leidseplein) in Amsterdam has a large chess set and statue, where the 'Max Euwe Stichting' is located in a former jailhouse. It has a Max Euwe museum and a large collection of chess books. Euwe�s granddaughter, Esm� Lammers, has written a children's book called Lang Leve de Koningin (Long live the Queen), which is a fairy tale about a young girl who learns to play chess and at the same time finds her father. Lammers filmed the story in 1995 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113598/.) � "Strategy requires thought; tactics requires observation." - Max Euwe � "Does the general public, do even our friends the critics realize that Euwe virtually never made an unsound combination? He may, of course, occasionally fail to take account of an opponent's combination, but when he has the initiative in a tactical operation his calculation is impeccable." � Alexander Alekhine � "He is logic personified, a genius of law and order. One would hardly call him an attacking player, yet he strides confidently into some extraordinarily complex variations." � Hans Kmoch � "There's something wrong with that man. He's too normal." � Bobby Fischer Sources (1) Wikipedia article: 2nd Chess Olympiad; (2) Wikipedia article: Hastings International Chess Congress; (3) http://members.tripod.com/HSK_Chess... (4) http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.a... Wikipedia article: Max Euwe

page 1 of 64; games 1-25 of 1,590

Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. Euwe vs NN	1-0	11	1911	Amsterdam, NED	C80 Ruy Lopez, Open
2. J Davidson vs Euwe	0-1	50	1912	Amsterdam simul	C01 French, Exchange
3. R Wielinga vs Euwe	0-1	46	1912	Amsterdam-North Holland	C00 French Defense
4. J W te Kolste vs Euwe	0-1	29	1913	VAS simul	D00 Queen's Pawn Game
5. Euwe vs A A de Graaff	1-0	18	1915	NSB 2nd class	C30 King's Gambit Declined
6. Euwe vs Weenink	1-0	21	1918	VAS Amsterdam	C53 Giuoco Piano
7. Reti vs Euwe	1-0	29	1919	Amsterdam	D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
8. G Kroone vs Euwe	1-0	45	1919	Amsterdam m1	C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
9. Euwe vs G Kroone	0-1	28	1919	Amsterdam m2	D34 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
10. G Kroone vs Euwe	1-0	26	1919	Amsterdam m1	C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
11. Euwe vs J O'Hanlon	1-0	29	1919	Hastings	C54 Giuoco Piano
12. Euwe vs G Kroone	½-½	26	1919	Amsterdam m1	D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
13. J W te Kolste vs Euwe	0-1	30	1919	NED-ch03	C46 Three Knights
14. Euwe vs E Palmer	1-0	26	1919	Hastings-C	C55 Two Knights Defense
15. G Kroone vs Euwe	½-½	38	1919	Amsterdam m1	C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
16. Euwe vs G Kroone	1-0	45	1919	Amsterdam m1	D33 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
17. G Kroone vs Euwe	1-0	16	1919	Amsterdam m1	C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
18. Euwe vs G Kroone	0-1	14	1919	Amsterdam m1	B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
19. G Kroone vs Euwe	½-½	37	1919	Amsterdam m2	A84 Dutch
20. Euwe vs G Kroone	1-0	20	1919	Amsterdam m2	C33 King's Gambit Accepted
21. Euwe vs G Kroone	1-0	43	1919	Amsterdam m1	C54 Giuoco Piano
22. G Kroone vs Euwe	0-1	35	1919	Amsterdam m1	C83 Ruy Lopez, Open
23. Euwe vs G Kroone	1-0	54	1919	Amsterdam m1	C53 Giuoco Piano
24. G Kroone vs Euwe	½-½	16	1919	Amsterdam m2	C29 Vienna Gambit
25. Euwe vs G Kroone	1-0	14	1919	Amsterdam m2	C56 Two Knights


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Feb-06-12		paladin at large: Pronunciation: Here you can hear both Capablanca and Han Hollander (a Dutchman) pronounce Euwe's name. http://www.geschiedenis24.nl/speler... I apologize if this has already been presented here; it was over on the Lasker link.

Feb-06-12		King Death: We can split hairs all day over this but I agree with <RookFile> that Euwe should be considered an amateur unless there's some kind of proof (not supposition) that he was backed financially. <visayan> may be right but even he admits that there's no concrete evidence. Even if there was, what does it prove anyway and who really cares?

Feb-07-12		Shams: I have to love the pronunciation guides being added to the player bios, though in the case of Max Euwe here I actually came out the other side knowing how to pronounce one <fewer> of his names than I did going in.

Feb-07-12		King Death: <Shams> That first name's really a mouthful, no wonder it was shortened to Max!

Feb-13-12		brankat: Euwe certainly did make some money while engaged in chess related activities: as a player, writer, and later of course as a salaried FIDE President. But for the most part he had made his living as a College/university Professor of mathematics. That was his true profession.

Feb-14-12		thomastonk: <brankat: But for the most part he had made his living as a College/university Professor of mathematics.> That's not correct. After he received the doctoral degree in 1926, Euwe became teacher at a secondary school for girls. In 1940, he became director of Van Amerongen, some kind of general store. After the tournament Groningen 1946, he became a chess professional for exactly three years. Then he returned to teaching the girls. In 1956 he started research on early computers for Remington. In 1959 he became the manager of a research center for automatic data processing, and then in 1964 he finally became an associate professor in the same field at the University in Rotterdam, and later - I don't know the year - he became a full professor in this field in Tilburg. So, he was many years a maths teacher, but only at the age, when others retire, he was a professer in computer science.

Feb-14-12		achieve: <Max Euwe> <Social careers> < 1923 Cum laude doctorandus in mathematics 1924 Teacher mathematics in Winterswijk Cofounder of FIDE 1924-1926 Teacher mathematics in Rotterdam 1926 At the University of Amsterdam cum laude promoted to doctor in mathematics and physics 1926-1940 Teacher of mathematics at the Amsterdams Lyceum Girls 1940-1945 Director of Van Amerongen, a department store chain in food. (Euwe knew food transports to cater for the underground movement in Amsterdam) 1945-1956 Teacher mathematics 1956-1959 Scientific Advisor to the computer Division of Remington Rand (Remington Rand was later acquisitioned by Univac) 1959-1965 Director Study Centre Automatic Data Processing 1961-1963 President of the Euratom Commission (investigating possibilities to chess programs for a computer to write) 1964 Euwe was appointed Professor in the Informatics, first in Netherlands(teaching: the methodology of the Automatic Data processing) 1964 Extraordinary Professor at the Economic College of Rotterdam (Erasmus) and Professor at the Katholieke Hogeschool in Tilburg (KU brabantine) 1970-1971 At the request of the Commission of the EC a number of universities in Member States visited Euwe doctrine course in Informatics at these institutes to study it 1971 Emeritus Professor (speech on The Computer and the exaugurale ' Ethics ') 1976 Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Mantenach in Luxembourg Miscellaneous 1926 Marriage with Caro Bergman, father of three daughters Hobbies Boxing, swimming, table tennis, flying (Euwe was in possession of a pilot's licence) > Copied from the Website of the Max Euwe Centrum; automatic translation by Bing; corrections by yours truly.

Feb-14-12		brankat: <achieve> Thank You Niels. So, I was not very much "off" when stating that Dr.Euve's primary profession was Teacher/Professor of mathematics?

Feb-14-12		achieve: You are never "far off", <brankat>, and teaching Mathematics and Informatica, can be labeled his main professions, although I would especially stress the width, as well as depth, of Euwe's activities, as a writer, researcher, amateur boxer, FIDE founder and later president, truly a pioneer in many ways, and a trail blazer.

Feb-14-12		thomastonk: <achivie,brankat> I knew the information on the MEC site, too, and so far as I see, the only real difference to what I wrote are the missing three years as a chess professional 1946-1949 on MEC's site. These years are often neglected, maybe because Euwe's greatest defeat - the WC tournament 1948 - is exactly in his professional period. I will talk to Eddy Sibbing, the manager of the MEC, when I will meet him the next time. I used the "not correct" phrase not to offend anybody, but only to stress that teacher of maths in a secondary school for girls and professor for computer science are very different jobs, and hence together with his other activities Euwe's professional live offside of chess cannot be summarized in one simple sentence. My information is taken from M�nninghoff's biography, where the relations of teaching maths, research in maths and playing chess in Euwe's live are discussed in detail. The "research thing" was several times an option for Euwe in his early years, and it is due to Kmoch that Euwe decided in 1934 to go for the match with Alekhine and keep teaching, and not to become a professor of maths. BTW, this book however does not emphasise Euwe's later years very much: everything after the mid 1950s is only sketched.

Feb-14-12		achieve: <thomastonk> Then maybe the phrase, "Not entirely correct" might be more appropriate, but really it doesn't matter that much; what matters is that there is some accurate information on Euwe's social and professional life, his hobbies, etc., as there are so many myths floating around in Chess universe, and in this case you have contributed very well to painting a clearer picture of <Dr. Max Euwe>, as it can be checked from reliable sources. I ought to have the M�nninghoff Bio in my book collection, but alas, I haven't, so any additional info from you is always welcomed and appreciated.

Feb-14-12		thomastonk: <achieve> Thanks.

Feb-14-12		brankat: <achieve> <thomastonk> Thank You guys. It is refreshing to actually be able, on occasion, to have a civilized conversation on this site :-) In regards to the width and depth of Dr.Euwe's interests/pursuits, it is interesting to note how, some 3-4 generations ago, there were so many great chess masters of a "renessaince man" stripes. Dr.Tarrasch, Dr.Lasker, Maroczy (math professor),Dr.Vidmar, Dr.Tartakower, Dr.Bernstein, Dr.Treybal, Dr.Botvinnik, Dr.Fine, Borislav Kostic (a globe-trotter fluent in 32 languages). And there had been others. Even earlier:A.Anderssen, Staunton. People of superb education and culture, intellectuals and scientist. And still great chess players. Aaah, good old days :-)

Feb-14-12		Olavi: It is actually unclear whether the FIDE president post carried a salary back then. It is a fact that Euwe covered the costs himself when travelling in FIDE matters.

Feb-14-12		brankat: <Olavi> You may be right. I do remember Dr.Euwe covering the costs himself. Although I still think he did have a salary, but probably no "expense account". Times have changed :-)

Mar-02-12		GrahamClayton: According to Alex Dunne, this was Euwe's first correspondence game: [Event "cr"] [Site "?"] [Date "1952.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Max Euwe"] [Black "Mario Napolitano"] [Result "1-0"] 1. d4 ♘f6 2. c4 e6 3. ♗g5 ♗b4+ 4. ♘d2 h6 5. ♗xf6 ♕xf6 6. a3 ♗xd2+ 7. ♕xd2 d6 8. e3 e5 9. ♘e2 exd4 10. ♘xd4 ♗d7 11. ♗e2 O-O 12. O-O ♘c6 13. ♘b5 ♖ac8 14. f4 a6 15. ♘c3 ♘e7 16. e4 ♖cd8 17. ♖ae1 ♗e6 18. ♔h1 c6 19. f5 ♗c8 20. ♗d1 ♕e5 21. f6 ♘g6 22. ♘e2 ♕g5 23. ♕c3 ♖fe8 24. ♘g3 ♘e5 25. fxg7 ♖e6 26. ♖f5 ♕e7 27. ♖ef1 ♖g6 28. ♖5f2 ♕h4 29. ♖f4 ♕g5 30. ♖1f2 c5 31. ♘f5 ♖e8 32. h4 ♕d8 33. ♗h5 ♗xf5 34. exf5 ♖xg7 35. f6 ♖h7 36. ♗d1 ♔h8 37. ♗c2 ♕c7 38. ♗f5 d5 39. cxd5 ♖g8 40. ♕c2 ♘g6 41. ♗xg6 1-0 Source: Alex Dunne, "The Complete Guide to Correspondence Chess", Thinkers Press, Davenport, Iowa, 1991, p.84

Mar-02-12		Stonehenge: Picture (caption: 02-03-1948 - Max Euwe tijdens schaakpartij in Amsterdam): http://media.nu.nl/m/m1gz09tafr2m_5...

Mar-09-12		laurenttizano: What can i say Euwe is the strongest world champion! No doubt living 80 years!

Mar-14-12		thomastonk: Game wanted! I have found one game Euwe vs Otto Brech, played in October 1925 on board 1 of a team match of the Netherlands against Rhineland-Westphalia (a part of Germany). In M�nninghoff's Euwe biography the result is 2-0 in Euwe's favour. Does anybody have the moves of the second game, i.e. Brech vs Euwe? (I have checked several databases including that of the Max Euwe Centrum. Brech was the best player of Aachen, where I live since 30 years.)

Mar-17-12		Dr. Yes: Concerning whether Euwe was a professional or not, my two cents is that it is highly unlkely that a girl's school teacher would put up a small fortune to play Alekhine for a WCC match, hence he must have had sponsors.

Mar-25-12		Calli: <Dr. Yes> Dr. Euwe was not paid for the match. He only received some expense money. Alekhine got 10000 francs. I think this was about $4,000 at that time. The match was mainly financed by selling tickets to the games. In order to get the most ticket sales, the organizers scheduled games in various Dutch towns. Alekhine and Euwe played in 13 different places!

Mar-26-12		Dr. Yes: Thanks Calli, but since there are sponsors for the match and Euwe did receive some money, this is the definition of a professional, which has caused problems for countless 'amateurs' in the past and is still causing problems today for American college athletes.

Mar-26-12		Dr. Yes: Another poster called attention to the wipe-out score in the second Euwe-Alekhine match. I too, always thought this was strange. Fine's explanation doesn't seem to hold the entire truth, since the match started out well contested, until all of a sudden Euwe was simply blown away. I really think that Fine wasn't as good a second as Kmoch was. Perhaps, Fine was secretly enjoying Euwe's downfall, since Fine, himself had designs on becoming Champion eventually. The psychological fit wasn't good because Fine's real interests were for himself.

Mar-26-12		ughaibu: Imagine that you're in the pub, with a friend. In order to decide who buys the first round, you toss a coin, and the result is in your favour. If your friend suddenly remembers an appointment, gives you the money for a drink and leaves, you're committed to the claim that you're a professional gambler. A professional tosser to be exact. Is that really your claim?

Mar-29-12		Dr. Yes: @ughaibu. The professional tosser is only so called when he forgets to buy the next round the next time.

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