FIDE history: Era of Soviet Domination

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At this congress, the rules for the future of the World chess Championship were laid down. The General Assembly decided to confer the World Championship title on Max Euwe since he was the last unsuccessful challenger to Alexander Alekhine. The Assembly proposed a match for the FIDE World Chess Championship between Max Euwe as the champion against Samuel Reshevsky as the challenger. The first post-war World Chess Championship, 1948The first world championship tournament after WWII started in The Hague on March 1, 1948, with a prize fund of 13,000 US$. The first post-war world chess championshipMoscow was the venue of the 1951 world championship between Mikhail Botvinnik and David Bronstein.