Editing Max Euwe (section)

==Early chess career==
Euwe played his first tournament at age 10, winning every game.<ref name="DenkerParr1995FischerIKnew">{{cite book | title=The Bobby Fischer I Knew and Other Stories | location=San Francisco | publisher=Hypermodern | year=1995 |last1=Denker|first1=Arnold|last2=Parr|first2= Larry |name-list-style=amp | isbn=0-923891-43-9|author1-link=Arnold Denker|chapter=The Man Who Beat Alexander Alekhine}}</ref>
He won every [[Dutch Chess Championship|Dutch chess championship]] that he entered from 1921 until 1952, and won the title again in 1955; his 12 titles are still a record. The only other winners during this period were [[Salo Landau]] in 1936, when Euwe, then world champion, did not compete; and [[Jan Hein Donner]] in 1954.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2005/kampioen.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129064100/https://www.schaakbond.nl/nieuws/nk2005/kampioen.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2019-01-29 | title=Schaakkampioenen van Nederland}}</ref> He became the [[World Amateur Chess Championship|world amateur chess champion]] in 1928, at The Hague, with a score of 12/15.<ref name="NewYorkTimes1981EuweObit">{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEED61638F93BA15752C1A967948260 | title= Max Euwe, ex-chess champion, led the game's World Federation | date=November 28, 1981 | work=The New York Times| first=Robert D.| last=Mcfadden| access-date=May 12, 2010}} Euwe's obituary</ref>

Euwe married in 1926, started a family soon afterwards, and could play competitive chess only during school vacations, so his opportunities for top-level international chess competition were limited. But he performed well in the few tournaments and matches for which he could find time, from the early 1920s to mid-1930s. He lost a training match to [[Alexander Alekhine]] in the Netherlands in December 1926 / January 1927, with 4½/10 (+2−3=5).<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=80028 |title = Alekhine–Euwe Training Match (1926) |website = Chessgames |access-date = 2016-12-16}}</ref> The match was played to help Euwe prepare for a future encounter with [[José Raúl Capablanca]], then world champion.<ref name="12 Euwe Matches">{{cite web |url = http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/rekius/euwe.htm |title = 12 Euwe Matches |publisher = Max Euwe Center |access-date = 2016-12-16 |archive-date = 2018-11-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181114001512/http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/rekius/euwe.htm |url-status = dead }}</ref> Euwe lost both the first and second [[FIDE]] Championship matches to [[Efim Bogoljubow]], held in the Netherlands in 1928 and 1928‒29 respectively, scoring 4½/10 in each match (+2−3=5 in the first match; +1−2=7 in the second match).<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=80764 |title = Bogoljubov–Euwe: First FIDE Championship (1928) |website = Chessgames.com.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=80763 |title = Bogoljubov–Euwe: Second FIDE Championship (1928) |website = Chessgames.com.}}</ref> He lost a match to Capablanca in [[Amsterdam]] in 1931 with 4/10 (+0−2=8). He won a match against Spielmann in Amsterdam in 1932, 3–1, played to help Euwe prepare for his upcoming match with [[Salo Flohr]].

In 1932, Euwe drew a match with Flohr 8–8,<ref name="12 Euwe Matches"/> and was equal second with Flohr, behind Alekhine, at a major tournament in [[Bern]].<ref>[http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=82308 Bern (1932)], ''Chessgames.com''</ref> According to [[Reuben Fine]], these results established Euwe and Flohr as Alekhine's most credible challengers.<ref name="Fine1952WorldsGreatChessGames" />

At [[Zürich 1934 chess tournament|Zürich 1934]], Euwe again finished equal second with Flohr, behind Alekhine, and he defeated Alekhine in their game.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Forster|first1=Richard|last2=Rohrer|first2=Christian|url = https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-world-s-oldest-che-club-part-ii-1914-1945- |title = The World’s Oldest Chess Club: Part II (1914–1945)) |website = Chessbase.com}}</ref>