Editing Max Euwe (section)

==Later chess career==
Euwe finished equal fourth with Alekhine and [[Samuel Reshevsky|Reshevsky]] in the [[AVRO tournament]] of 1938 in the Netherlands, which featured the world's top eight players and was an attempt to decide who should challenge Alekhine for the world championship. Euwe also had a major organisational role in the event.<ref name="Münninghoff2001EuweBiography" />

He played a match with [[Paul Keres]] in the Netherlands in 1939–40, losing 6½–7½.

After Alekhine's death in 1946, Euwe was considered by some to have a moral right to the position of world champion, based at least partially on his clear second-place finish in the great [[Groningen 1946 chess tournament|tournament at Groningen in 1946]], behind [[Mikhail Botvinnik]]. But Euwe consented to participate in a five-player tournament to select the new champion, the [[World Chess Championship 1948]].<ref name="Münninghoff2001EuweBiography" /> At 47, Euwe was significantly older than the other players, and well past his best. He finished last.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/chessbooks/blurbs/worldcc1948.html |title = The World Chess Championship 1948.How Botvinnik became World Champion |website = British Chess Magazine |last=Golombek|first=Harry| author-link=Harry Golombek|url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071027035124/http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/chessbooks/blurbs/worldcc1948.html |archive-date = 2007-10-27 }}</ref> In 1950, [[FIDE]] granted Euwe the title of [[Grandmaster (chess)|international grandmaster]] on its inaugural list. He took part in the [[Gijón]] international tournament in 1951,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Mendez|first1=Pedro|url=https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-gijon-international-chess-tournaments-1944-1965/|title=The Gijon International Chess Tournaments|last2=Mendez|first2=Luis|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=2019|isbn=978-1-4766-7659-3|pages=133–145}}</ref> winning ahead of Pilnik and Rossolimo with a score of +7=2.

Euwe's final major tournament was the [[double round robin]] [[Zürich 1953 chess tournament|Candidates' Tournament in Zürich, 1953]], where he finished next to last. He was in the top half of the field after the first half of the tournament, but tired in the second half.

Euwe played for the Netherlands in seven [[Chess Olympiads]] from 1927 to 1962, a 35-year span, always on {{chessgloss|first board}}. He scored 10½/15 at London 1927, 9½/13 at [[7th Chess Olympiad|Stockholm 1937]] for a bronze medal, 8/12 at [[9th Chess Olympiad|Dubrovnik 1950]], 7½/13 at [[11th Chess Olympiad|Amsterdam 1954]], 8½/11 at [[13th Chess Olympiad|Munich 1958]] for a silver medal at age 57, 6½/16 at [[14th Chess Olympiad|Leipzig 1960]], and finally 4/7 at [[15th Chess Olympiad|Varna 1962]]. His aggregate was 54½/87 for 62.6 percent.

In 1957, Euwe played a short match against 14-year-old future world champion [[Bobby Fischer]], winning one game and drawing the other. His lifetime score against Fischer was one win, one loss, and one draw.

Euwe won a total of 102 first prizes in tournaments during his career, many of them local.<ref name="DenkerParr1995FischerIKnew" />

He became a [[computer science]] professor at [[Tilburg University]] in 1964.