Vote! Best Chess Player Tournament - Round 1 - Section 1 – Match 7

7th match of the section 1! Fifth World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1935-37, Netherlands GM Max Euwe will meet U16 European Youth Champion in 1999 Rauf Mamedov. Who is stronger?

Previous match:

Sergey Karjakin 25 - 11 Bogdan-Daniel Deac

Today's Match:

Vote for Max Euwe

Vote for Rauf Mamedov

Full bracket here: https://challonge.com/uubyyct

is max euve not dead

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He died many years ago, but he competes in our Community Vote, because we did the bracket with all time players.

you can say that when people compare Fischer and Magnus... This is all just hypothetically speaking (assuming most of the people in this forum know who these individuals are).

oh ok

As long as the contest doesn't interfere with Euwe teaching math! 😁

I thought It was Lasker who was a mathematician

Euwe was a mathematician and math teacher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Euwe

He could only compete in tournaments when he didn't have classes to teach.

I have also heard it said, in an historical video, that in spite of his chess career, he did not consider himself to be a professional chess player. (Sounds like Hikaru...)

same