Alexander Alekhine and Max Euwe played a ten-game training match across four Dutch cities over the turn of 1926–27. Euwe twice erased Alekhine's early lead, but Alekhine won the tenth and final game with Black to take the match 5½–4½.
Euwe stays level
Alekhine won games two and three to lead early. Euwe replied with consecutive victories in games seven and eight, bringing the match back to level with two games remaining.
Game nine was drawn. In the finale Alekhine had Black, won the game, and secured the narrowest possible match victory.
Before the championship encounters
The match came before Alekhine's 1927 world-title victory over José Raúl Capablanca and years before his two World Championship matches with Euwe. Contemporary summaries describe the 1926–27 encounter as training play, but the direct match record classifies it as formal and preserves a complete ten-game result.
The source database's event label is off by one draw. The ten games, the historical table and other summaries all give the same result: Alekhine won 5½–4½, with three wins, two losses and five draws.
Cross table
1 win · ½ draw · 0 loss — click a game number to replay it.