Named after the only chess world champion the Netherlands has produced and occupying the city's old House of Detention - it held Resistance leaders in World War II - the Max Euwe Centrum harbours a library of works in dozens of languages, various chess artefacts, vast archives and chess computers that visitors can use and abuse at their leisure.
Area Canals
Transport Tram 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10
Telephone 625 7017
Open noon-4pm Tue-Fri.
Admission free.
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