Max Euwe World Champion! - Erwin L'Ami, Paul van der SterrenHardback and Paperback, 192 pages, New in Chess 2026 When Max Euwe defeated Alexander Alekhine in 1935, the chess world was stunned. A modest Dutch mathematics teacher had dethroned the most charismatic and feared champion of his time. Almost immediately, doubts arose: Was Euwe truly worthy of the crown? Did he really belong in the lineage of Anderssen, Morphy, Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca and Alekhine himself? Nearly a century later, these questions