Dear friends of the game of chess, it seemed necessary to us to return to the history of the legendary Dutch tournament of Wijk aan Zee which saw the victory at the beginning of the year of the world n°5, Anish Giri.
In tennis, the amateur knows the grand slams.
In January we go to Melbourne, in June to Paris, in July to London and at the end of the summer to New York.
The king of games has its big event, its Cannes festival.
It takes up its winter quarters near the dunes of the North Sea some forty kilometers from Amsterdam.
In 1938, Cor van Krimpen, the president of the blast furnaces, the big local steelworks, decided to organize a beautiful chess tournament to celebrate the new year.
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Very quickly, the master builder of the blast furnaces invited the Dutch star of the 64 boxes, the highly respected professor Max Euwe, the man who had managed to dethrone for two years, Alexandre Alekhine, the 4th world champion of history.
After a short hiatus during World War II...
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