It’s hard to think of a better match in chess between author and subject than GM Jan Timman’s new anthology, “Max Euwe’s Best Games.”
Timman, the best Dutch player of his generation and a prolific author, offers up a deep analysis of 80 games from his compatriot, the fifth world champion and still the greatest player his chess-mad country has ever produced. Often underrated because his time as champion lasted just two short years in the mid-1930s, the courtly Euwe fashioned a remarkable career over the course of six decades.
Garry Kasparov, in his survey “My Great Predecessors,” noted with some surprise that in addition to his strong opening and endgame technique and acknowledged positional flair, Euwe was also a “full-blooded attacking player. Whenever the position lent itself to attacking, he would direct his pieces toward the enemy king.”
White tips the balance with a fantastic resource: 18. Kf3! Rf8 19. Rf5+!! — picking his way through the pins, counterpins and discovered attacks to find the win: 19 … Kd7 20. Rxf8 Qxa1 21. Rf7+ Kd8 22. Qb4 Nd7 23. Qd6 Qh8 23. Ne2 e5 25. Nf4 exf4 26. Bf5, and Black can’t handle the pressure on his king. After 26 … Qe8 27. Bxd7 Bxd7 28. Rf8, the Black queen is pinned and lost and Maroczy resigned.
Now, after 17. exf6 Bxf6 18. Ne4 Rxe4! 19. Bxe4 Re8 20. Be3 Bf5!, Donner’s entire position is under siege. White’s resistance collapses on 21. Qxc5? Rxe4 22. Rd2 Qf3, and White resigns as 23. Bf2 Bh3 24. Be1 Bd4+! is winning.In a cheating controversy that generated global headlines, a federal judge last week dismissed the $100 million defamation lawsuit filed by U.S. GM Hans Moke Niemann against former world champion Magnus Carlsen, U.S. GM Hikaru Nakamura, Chess.
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