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Max Euwe vs Tigran Petrosian
Zuerich Candidates (1953), Zuerich SUI, rd 25, Oct-14
Old Indian Defense: Two Knights Variation (A54)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Feb-27-23  Ninas Husband: Oddly enough, the two games from this tournament were the ONLY two games this former and future world champions would ever play with each other. #weird
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  plang: Why? It was the very end of Euwe's career and still very early in Petrosian's.
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  plang: No "weirder" than Botvinnik and Fischer meeting "only" once.
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  perfidious: Then there was the case of Botvinnik and Tal, who never met at the board before playing their first match for the title.
Feb-27-23  Ninas Husband: <plang> <It was the very end of Euwe's career> He was 52! Hardly <the very end>!

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