The Development of Chess Style

Max Euwe was the fifth official world champion, and met many of the other champions in chessboard battles. Here, he assesses the contributions of each to the way chess is played and approached.

John Nunn has brought the book fully up to date by discussing the contributions of Karpoc, Kasparov, and the new generation of professionals and the supercomputers.

A new edition of Euwe's classic and instructive trip though chess history

Updated and converted to algebraic by Juhn Nunn, who draws upon his firsthand experience of playing against Karpov and Kasparov

Provides and excellent way to develop an understanding of the concepts that underpin modern chess

Features some of the best chess games ever played

Dr. Max Euwe was world chess champion from 1935 to 1937. He played all of the great players from Lasker to Fischer in tournaments and studied all of their games in great detail. He knew more about them and their games than anybody else. Max Euwe was born on May 20, 1901 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Among the world Champions, Euwe was certainly the most active and prolific writer about the game. He was never a professional player. He had a real job. He was a math professor. After retirement he became a chess official. He was president of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. This was during the Cold War and Euwe had to make difficult decisions for the good of chess. It was absolutely, definitely because of Euwe that Bobby Fischer got to sit down at the board to play a match for the World Chess Championship. Fischer had been disqualified many times along the way, the first time being when he refused to play in the US Championship that was a necessary preliminary to the World Chess Championship competition. Max Euwe, himself a past world champion, acted as both referee and official at the famous Iceland matches in 1972. Max Euwe died on November 26, 1981 in his native Amsterdam at age 80.