Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: Max Euwe, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Nikolai Krogius, George Koltanowski, Serzh Sargsyan, Efstratios Grivas, Vladimir Alatortsev, Florencio Campomanes, Frank Anderson, CJ de Mooi, Borislav Milic, Nathan Divinsky, Leroy Dubeck, Bo idar Ivanovi, Sergio Mariotti, James Eade, Alexander Moroz, Faiq Hasanov, William John Donaldson, Friorik Olafsson, Don Schultz, Vitaly Sevastyanov, Maxim Dlugy, Mike Goodall, Abdul-Razzaq Ahmed Taha, Nana Alexandria, Ignatius Leong, Arkady Dvorkovich, Max Lange, Alexander Rueb, Ehrhardt Post, Beatriz Marinello, Paul Baender, Michael Freeman, Bill Goichberg, Gabor Kallai, Mark S. Dutton, Randall Hough, Bessel Kok, Vanik Zakaryan, Ed Edmondson, Istvan Abonyi, Ion Gudju, Ali Nihat Yaz c, Gaguik Oganessian, Daniel Yarnton Mills, Jim Berry, Walter Robinow, Folke Rogard, Tim Redman, Augusto de Muro, Denis Barry, Steven Doyle, Mikko Markkula, Frank Niro. Excerpt: Machgielis (Max) Euwe (last name is pronounced ) (May 20, 1901 - November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author. He was the fifth player to become World Chess Champion (1935-1937). Euwe also served as President of FIDE, the World Chess Federation, from 1970 to 1978. Euwe was born in Watergraafsmeer, near Amsterdam. He studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, earning his doctorate in 1926, and taught mathematics, first in Rotterdam, and later at a girls' Lyceum in Amsterdam. He published a mathematical analysis of the game of chess from an intuitionistic point of view, in which he showed, using the Thue-Morse sequence, that the then-official rules did not exclude the possibility of infinite games. Euwe won every Dutch chess championship that he participated in from 1921 until 1952, and additionally won the title in 1955 - his 12 titles are still a record. The only other winners during this period were Sa...