Aves biography

Heritage Childhood and the beginning of his career, Max Ave learned the rules of chess at four years old. His parents, two sisters, and two brothers were fond of chess. From the age of 12, the young chess player was allowed to visit the Amsterdam chess club. In the year, at the Amsterdam tournament, Eiwa took fourth place after Gesa Maroti, Richard Retie and Savely Tartakover, but was ahead of all compatriots.

In the course of the lessons "Play as Max Ave" we can independently make out the move after the progress of the victory over Reti, won in the same year in a small match, and four more classic parties. In the year, the summer chess player for the first time became the champion of Holland. In total, from a year he won the national championship 12 times. Ave received recognition as one of the most talented chess players of the post -war generation, but he did not become a professional chess player and rarely participated in international tournaments, combining chess with the study of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, and later with teaching at school.

From the year, a series of training matches organized by Dutch chess lovers begins. Ave lost with a minimum score - 4, 5 - the match Alexander Alekhin, and in the years with the same account - two matches for the Fide Champion Efim Bogolyubov, and in the year - the match Jose -Raul Kapablanca. The failures were relative, because the opponents of Ave were the strongest chess players in the world.

Max Ave in the year. Photo: Wikipedia these successes allowed Ave and its fans to start preparing for a match for the world championship. The match for the world championship Match against Alekhin for most of the 30 parties began catastrophically for the applicant, who inferior to the harmful habits of the world champion and the underestimation of the enemy after 9 parties among the versions of further events, but it is worth noting that Alekhin made risky decisions throughout the match, and Avele gradually learned to find weaknesses of his intentions.

After the batch, the score became equal: and after the Yuve he stepped forward by two points: and Alekhin was only able to reduce the lag in a match that ended with the minimum advantage of the applicant: 15, 5. In all these tournaments, he was ahead of Alekhin, but the match-match ended with a defeat with a score of 9, 5. In the year, Aueve lost with a minimum score of 5, 5 in the match Paul Keresa, and in the year won with a score of 6, 5 Bogolyubov, but later refused to participate in tournaments organized by the Nazis.

At the first, after the end of World War II, the tournament in Groningen Ave fought for first place with Mikhail Botvinnik, but eventually lagged behind him for half a glass. Ave, along with Botvinnik, Keres and Resashesky, developed the principles of the drawing of the world champion title, but unsuccessfully performed at the Match Torrier in The Hague and Moscow, taking the last place.

Alexandra Kostenyuk shows a classic party against Miguel Naydorf. The heritage in the year Ave became a scientific consultant to a company that worked in the field of application of computer equipment for the needs of the management. In the year - Director of the Scientific Center for Data Processing. He defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "computer and ethics." It was with him that the two most politically important champion matches of all time were held: Fisher against Boris Spassky in the year and Anatoly Karpov against Viktor Korchny in the year.

Max Ave is a national hero in the Netherlands. On one of the squares of Amsterdam, named in his honor, you can see a sculptural composition in memory of the world champion, as well as giant chess figures. On the square is the "Max Ave" center with the museum and the chess library. The sculptural image of Max Ave in Amsterdam. Photo: J. Lujit, CC Best Party.