World Chess Championship 1937
The 1937 World Chess Championship was played between Max Euwe and Alexander Alekhine in the Netherlands from October 5 to December 4, 1937. Alekhine regained his title.[1][2]
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Alekhine facing Euwe in 1937
This was the last "Imperial" World Championship where the world champion had control of the title and could set match conditions; Alekhine died in 1946 and FIDE stepped in to take control of the World Championship.
Results
The first player to win six games and score more than 15 points would be champion.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | Wins | Points | |
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0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 10 | 15½ |
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1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9½ |
Alekhine won the Championship.
gollark: Also less pointless ones like internal trading.
gollark: They can on relatively pointless matters like navigation satellites.
gollark: I mean, it has 26 or so countries in it, and if they couldn't in aggregate match the coolness of other countries what hope do they have?
gollark: Yes, but it has to be as cool as countries.
gollark: All COOL countries have their own navigation satellites, so the EU has to be cool and have them too.
References
- Schulz, Andre (11 May 2016). "The Big Book of World Chess Championships: 46 Title Fights - from Steinitz to Carlsen". New In Chess – via Google Books.
- "Euwe - Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937)". www.chessgames.com.
External links
- 1937 World Chess Championship at the Internet Archive record of Graeme Cree's Chess Pages
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