Max Euwe

Max Euwe:

Again, very little competition here. He is the only player whose surname starts with the letter E who became world champion. There are very few players whose surname starts with the letter E that you can think of at the top of your head. The only player that I can think of is Esipkeno who we recently saw defeat the world champion. So it's clear that Euwe is the strongest player for the letter E.

Max Euwe was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on May 20th, 1901. Euwe was actually a mathematician before he became a world-class player. He was a very solid player but was still comfortable in wild positions.  Euwe is quite often forgotten even though he beat such strong players like Alekhine, Botvinnik, and even Fischer many times. Some consider him as the weakest World Chess Champion but hey, becoming a world champion at that time was extremely hard.