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Czechoslovak chess player (1906–1944)
Vera Francevna Mencikova (Russian: Вера Францевна Менчик, Vera Frantsevna Menchik; Czech: Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born
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Women's chess competition
Championship: the Menchik era (1927–1944), the Soviet-dominated era (1950–1991), and the China-dominated era (1991–present). Vera Menchik won every Women's
Women's World Chess Championship
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Surname list
Menchik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Olga Menchik (1907–1944), British chess player Vera Menchik (1906–1944), British-Russian
Menchik
Czech-British chess player (1908–1944)
younger sister to Vera Menchik, the Women's World Chess Champion. The girls and their mother moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London
Olga_Menchik
1937; it was won by Vera Menchik. After their 1934 match (won +3 =0 -1 by Menchik), reigning Women's World Chess Champion Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf played
Women's World Chess Championship 1937 match
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Women's participation in chess
largely limited to competing against other women. Around this time, Vera Menchik became the inaugural Women's World Chess Champion and was the first woman
Women_in_chess
Name list
children's television presenter Vera Menchik (1906–1944), British chess player Vera Michalski (born 1954), Swiss publisher Vera Mikhailova (1907–1985), Soviet
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Austrian-Argentine chess master (1896–1984)
In 1929, he tied for 5-7th in Karlovy Vary, and also inaugurated the Vera Menchik Club as the first member. The event was won by Aron Nimzowitsch. In 1930
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past and present players who were still alive, none of whom were women. Vera Menchik, who regularly competed against high-level male players and was the only
List of female chess grandmasters
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Traditional board game for two players
was established; the first to hold the title was Czech-English master Vera Menchik. A prodigy from Cuba, José Raúl Capablanca, known for his skill in endgames
Chess
Comparison of the best chess players throughout the years
ratings began, the retrospective rating site Chessmetrics also considered Vera Menchik to have been among the top 100 players in the world for several years
Comparison of top chess players throughout history
Comparison_of_top_chess_players_throughout_history
Championship was established; the first to hold it was Czech-English master Vera Menchik. During World War II, many prominent chess players died or were killed
History_of_chess
at Montevideo 2017 (9/9) Karen H. Grigoryan at Famalicão 2019 (9/9) Vera Menchik won four consecutive Women's World Chess Championship tournaments with
List of world records in chess
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Chess museum in United States
Hall of Fame. The winner of the first Women's World Chess Championship, Vera Menchik, was the first woman to be inducted into the WCHOF in 2011. The U.S.
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only student of José Raúl Capablanca, the World Champion at the time. Vera Menchik's 1926 victory at the Hastings Major Reserve, a tier below the highest
List of female winners of open chess tournaments
List_of_female_winners_of_open_chess_tournaments
Biennial international chess tournament
next winner. The trophy for the winning women's team is known as the Vera Menchik Cup in honor of the first Women's World Chess Champion. Since FIDE has
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Austrian chess player
London 1927 (Vera Menchik won), 3rd (behind V. Menchik and Regina Gerlecka) at Warsaw 1935, and tied for 17-20th at Stockholm 1937 (V. Menchik won). She
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2026 chess tournament in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
teams that finished on the podium in the Women's event and awarded the Vera Menchik Cup to the winners China, and Uzbek prime minister and CFU chairman Aripov
46th_Chess_Olympiad
tournament. Vera Menchik won the championship, conceding only half a point in her 11 games. The final results were as follows: "Vera Francevna Menchik-Stevenson
Women's World Chess Championship 1927
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German chess player
current world champion Vera Menchik was the only defeat of Menchik in all Women's World Chess Championships. Wally Henschel – Vera Menchik Women's World Chess
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Georgian chess grandmaster (born 1961)
longest, at 13 years, behind only that of the first women's champion, Vera Menchik, who reigned for 17 years from 1927 until her death in 1944, and Gaprindashvili's
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1931. The tournament was played as a double round-robin tournament. Vera Menchik successfully defended her title. The final results were as follows: Stanisław
Women's World Chess Championship 1931
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New York Times recurring series
Rexach, "Puerto Rican singer and composer", published September 16, 2022 Vera Menchik, "first women's chess champion", published September 2, 2022 Regina Jonas
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International chess competition series
tournaments with a much weaker field by TAR (Tournament Average Rating). Vera Menchik was the first and the longest reigning Women's World Champion, winning
FIDE World Chess Championships
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Soviet-Hungarian chess grandmaster (1911–2010)
Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living grandmaster (since
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District of London
actress Alfred Marshall Donald Maxwell (illustrator) Noel McKoy – singer Vera Menchik – Women's World Chess Champion Heather Mills – model Julie Myerson Chris
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Period of social discontinuity
tournament to decide on a successor. 1944–1950 — Women's World Chess Champion Vera Menchik was killed in an air-raid during World War II in Britain in 1944. The
Interregnum
1950 in Moscow, Russia. The title had been vacant since the death of Vera Menchik in 1944. The round-robin tournament was won by Lyudmila Rudenko. Just
Women's World Chess Championship 1949–50
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for The New York Times during the tournament. Women's world champion Vera Menchik participated. The results and standings: Nimzowitsch got 20,000 Kronen
Carlsbad 1929 chess tournament
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Svetlana Matveeva (born 1969) Isaak Mazel (1911–1943) Olga Menchik (1908–1946) Vera Menchik (1906–1944) Vadim Milov (born 1972) Leopold Mitrofanov (1932–1992)
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Retrieved 2021-02-02. "Petrosian vs. Pachman, Bled 1961". Chessgames.com. "Vera Menchik vs. Sonja Graf-Stevenson, Semmering 1937". Chessgames.com. Hooper & Whyld
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Hungarian chess grandmaster (born 1976)
original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011. Nikolay Minev. "The "Vera Menchik Club" (PDF). The Chess Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17
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FIDE women's chess tournament for national teams
tournaments. The trophy for the winning women's team is known as the Vera Menchik Cup in honor of the first Women's World Chess Champion (1927–1944). The
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Argentine-French chess player
In 1933, she took 6th at Folkestone (Vera Menchik won). In 1939, she tied for 9-10th at Buenos Aires (Vera Menchik–Stevenson won). In September 1939, when
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Austrian chess player
3rd, behind Vera Menchik and Katarina Beskow at London 1927, took 2nd at Hamburg 1930, and took 2nd at Prague 1931, both behind V. Menchik. She died in
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Period in chess history (1946–1948)
similar interregnum of the Women's World Chess Championship, between Vera Menchik's death in 1944 and Lyudmila Rudenko winning the championship in 1950
Interregnum of World Chess Champions
Interregnum_of_World_Chess_Champions
1933. The competition was played as a double round-robin tournament. Vera Menchik successfully defended her title. The final results were as follows: Gawlikowski
Women's World Chess Championship 1933
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Latvian chess player (1918–2009)
with Sonja Graf, behind Vera Menchik and Clarice Benini at Stockholm 1937, and taking sixth place at Buenos Aires 1939 (V. Menchik won). Milda Lauberte became
Milda_Lauberte
Hungarian chess grandmaster (1870–1951)
opening theory, credited him as a "good teacher" who greatly helped Vera Menchik reach the top of women's chess, and "one of the greatest masters of his
Géza_Maróczy
Polish chess player
Herman tied for 6th at the 5th Women's World Championship in Warsaw (Vera Menchik won). In 1936, she participated in the women's international tournament
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Musical artist
match. In 2022, Kouchak wrote a musical A Queen Before Her Time about Vera Menchik, the world's best female chess player at the time, which was celebrated
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Annual chess tournament
Alekhine at the 1933/4 Christmas Congress and Botvinnik in 1961/62. Vera Menchik (Czechoslovakia), who was then the Women's World Champion, was the first
Hastings International Chess Congress
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2004 chess tournament in Calvià, Spain
to preserve what was ultimately a three-point win and to clinch the Vera Menchik Trophy for a fourth consecutive time. Second-seed Russia were led by
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Cuban chess player (1902–1980
World Champion. She tied for seventh/eighth place at Buenos Aires 1939 (Vera Menchik won), and 10-11th at Moscow 1949/50 (Lyudmila Rudenko won). Mora was
María_Teresa_Mora
Hamburg. The tournament was played as a double round-robin tournament. Vera Menchik successfully defended her title. She lost her only ever Women's World
Women's World Chess Championship 1930
Women's_World_Chess_Championship_1930
Cuban chess player (1888–1942)
four other very strong players 1929 Ramsgate 1st 5½/7 +4−0=3 Ahead of Vera Menchik (5), Rubinstein (5), and four others Carlsbad 2nd= 14½/21 +10−2=9 Behind
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Women's World Championship is held in conjunction with the Olympiad. Vera Menchik (Czechoslovakia) easily retains her title. The Bulgarian Championship
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Kosteniuk and Oxana Kosteniuk Alisa Marić and Mirjana Marić Vera Menchik and Olga Menchik Anna Muzychuk and Mariya Muzychuk Mai Narva and Triin Narva
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Soviet chess player (1904–1986)
the most important accomplishment in her life. Women's World Champion Vera Menchik died in 1944 during an air raid. After the war, in the winter of 1949–1950
Lyudmila_Rudenko
British chess player (1873–1935)
Her husband was remarried in 1937 to Women's World Chess Champion, Vera Menchik, who was herself killed just a few years later in 1944. Edward Winter
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Three consecutive championship titles
Viswanathan Anand (4-peat) 2013–2021 Magnus Carlsen (5-peat) 1927–1939 / Vera Menchik (9-peat) 1962–1975 Nona Gaprindashvili (5-peat) 1978–1988 Maia Chiburdanidze
Three-peat
British chess player (1867–1956)
10-16th at Stockholm 1937 (6th WWCC). All of these events were won by Vera Menchik. Edith Holloway - Peter Potemkine, Paris 1924, Owen's Defence 1.e4 b6
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Langeweg Bent Larsen Edward Lasker Andor Lilienthal Aleksandar Matanović Vera Menchik Stuart Milner-Barry Vladimir Nabokov Miguel Najdorf Friðrik Ólafsson
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imprisoned dissident Vera Menchik (1906–1944), British-Russian chess player; the first Women's World Chess Championship Olga Menchik (1907–1944), Czech-British
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Italian chess player (1905–1976)
also came second in the Women's World Championship at Stockholm, behind Vera Menchik and ahead of Sonja Graf, Milda Lauberte, Mary Bain, Mona May Karff, and
Clarice_Benini
Polish chess player
World Chess Championship and shared 9th - 10th place (tournament won by Vera Menchik). Jahr, Przemysław (24 February 2016). "Mistrzostwa Polski Kobiet w Szachach
Natalia Kowalska (chess player)
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British chess player (1872–1956)
Folkestone 1933 (the fourth Women's World Chess Championship), both won by Vera Menchik. From 1898 to 1945, Edith Price was the proprietress of the Gambit Chess
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Day of the year
Barnett, English Women's Royal Air Force officer (died 1985) 1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-Czechoslovak-British chess player (died 1944) 1909 – Hugh Beaumont
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Polish chess player
took place in Warsaw. Two months later, she finished second, behind Vera Menchik, in the 5th Women's World Chess Championship, held alongside the 6th
Regina_Gerlecka
2006 chess tournament in Turin, Italy
remainder of the tournament and all but secured the gold medals and the Vera Menchik Trophy with a twelfth round win over India (2½-½), eventually finishing
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Hrant Melkumyan (Armenia, born 1989) Olga Menchik (Russia, Czechoslovakia, England, 1908–1944) Vera Menchik (Russia, Czechoslovakia, England, 1906–1944)
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Soviet chess player (1913–1989)
Passionate about women's chess, Bykova also wrote three books about Vera Menchik, Soviet women chess players, and the Women's World Championship. She
Elisaveta_Bykova
Vienna. 27 June – Vera Menchik, the 1st Women's World Chess Champion, died in a German bombing raid, London, England. 27 June – Olga Menchik, the younger sister
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Chilean chess player (1914–2013)
World Championship in Buenos Aires, she finished in third place behind Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf. Carrasco was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM)
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Scottish chess player (1882–1947)
Stockholm in 1937 where she placed joint 8-9th, both events were won by Vera Menchik. Upon the merger of the Scottish Ladies Chess Association with the men's
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Dutch chess player
which took place during the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939 (Vera Menchik won both events). Catharina Roodzant-Glimmerveen 1896-1999 Rotterdamse
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International Chess Congress over 20 years, defeating Mir Sultan Khan and Vera Menchik in 1932/3. He finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the British Championship proper
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Women's World Championship is held in conjunction with the Olympiad. Vera Menchik-Stevenson (England) retains her title. She won, scoring 18/19, followed
1939_in_chess
Swedish chess player
Championship tournaments held before World War II. She took second place behind Vera Menchik at the first Women's World Championship held in London in 1927, fourth
Katarina_Beskow
raised from the age of 12 in England. Chess playing sisters Vera Menchik and Olga Menchik were daughters of a Czech father and English mother in Moscow
Anglo-Russians
Austrian chess player
places at the 6th Women's World Chess Championship in Stockholm, won by Vera Menchik. Born in Brzezinka, after Anschluss, she moved initially to Palestine
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concentration camp Heinrich Wolf 1875–1943 Austrian chess player Jewish Vienna Vera Menchik 1906–1944 British-Czech chess player; world champion The Blitz killed
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German chess player (1908–1965)
lifestyle. In 1934, she played against the era's other woman champion, Vera Menchik, in an unofficial match in Amsterdam and, subsequently, in an official
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players from Hastings (Flohr, Kashdan, Sultan Khan, Sir George Thomas, and Vera Menchik) with the addition of Alexander Alekhine (France), Savielly Tartakower
1932_in_chess
Štěrba (born 1981) Lukáš Trefil (born 1988) Jaroslav Volf (born 1979) Vera Menchik (1906–1944), chess player Richard Réti (1889–1929), chess player Wilhelm
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Vera Menchik (TCH) - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 2 Regina Gerlecka (POL) 0 - ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 6½ 3 Gisela Harum (AUT) 0 ½ - ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 6 4 Olga Menchik (TCH)
Women's World Chess Championship 1935
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American chess player (1904–1972)
In international tournaments, she took fifth place at Stockholm 1937 (Vera Menchik won) and 14th place at Moscow 1952 (Elisabeth Bykova won). List of Jewish
Mary_Bain
Czech chess player (1911–1961)
Championship in Buenos Aires and tied for 9–10th place (tournament won by Vera Menchik). After returning to her homeland from the Women's World Championship
Blažena_Janečková
Italian chess master
Championship which was held during the 5th Chess Olympiad at Folkestone 1933 (Vera Menchik won). In 1934, she played at Milan (torneo principale, Mario Napolitano
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7½ 19 Vitaly Chekhover (Soviet Union) ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 — 1 5½ 20 Vera Menchik (England) ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 — 1½
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German chess player (1905–2001)
Women's World Chess Championship (scoring 15/19) at Buenos Aires 1939 (Vera Menchik won). After World War II, she won the women's national (West German)
Friedl_Rinder
American chess player (1908–1998)
Palestine and placing sixth (won by Vera Menchik); 1939 Buenos Aires, playing for the U.S. and placing 5th (also won by Menchik); 1949 Moscow, playing for the
Mona_May_Karff
Argentine chess player (1910–1971)
Championship in Buenos Aires and took 12th place (tournament was won by Vera Menchik). She two times ranked 3rd in Women's World Chess Championship South
Dora_Trepat_de_Navarro
Latvian-Russian chess player (1908–1943)
1933, 5th Olympiad, Sicilian Defense, Classical Variation, B58, 0-1 Vera Menchik vs Vladimirs Petrovs, Podebrady 1936, Czechoslovakia championship, Queen's
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French chess player
Chess Championship in Folkestone and took 7th place (tournament won by Vera Menchik). "D'Autremont". heritageechecsfra.free.fr. "1927–39 Title Tournaments :
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Polish chess player
World Chess Championship and shared 17th - 20th place (tournament won by Vera Menchik). She was killed during the Warsaw Uprising, aged 30. She was exhumed
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Hungarian chess grandmaster (1917–1998)
chess who had previously trained future world champions, Max Euwe and Vera Menchik. Prior to World War II, there were other successes, including a gold
László_Szabó_(chess_player)
Mažar, people's hero (1973) Ivan Mažuranić, poet and politician (1965) Vera Menchik, Russian-Czechoslovak-British chess player (2001) Saint Mercurius, Christian
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Woman's World Chess Championship
Player Points 1 Vera Menchik (TCH) 14 2 Clarice Benini (ITA) 10 3–4 Milda Lauberte (LAT) 9 Sonja Graf (GER) 9 5 Mary Bain (USA) 8½ 6–7 Mona May Karff (PLE)
Women's World Chess Championship 1937 tournament
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March 1940. London (Easter) won by Harry Golombek and Paul List ahead of Vera Menchik-Stevenson, March 1940. New York City (the 3rd U.S. Chess Championship)
1940_in_chess
French chess player
participated in the first Women's World Chess Championship in London won by Vera Menchik, where she shared 9th–11th places. After 1927 she rarely participated
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Cemetery in England
Jan Kwapiński (1885–1964), Polish independence activist and politician Vera Menchik (1906-1944) First and longest reigning Women's world chess champion Jane
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were won by the same player: Vera Menchik, by far the dominating figure in this early era of organized women's chess. Menchik, who usually preferred to compete
Development of the Women's World Chess Championship
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Mason United States United Kingdom Olga Menchik Soviet Union Czechoslovakia United Kingdom Vera Menchik Soviet Union Czechoslovakia United Kingdom
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English sports player (1881–1972)
(+13−11=13), but was less successful against Women's World Chess Champion Vera Menchik (+7−8=7), In 1950, he was awarded the International Master title by FIDE
Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet
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Lithuanian chess player
Championship in Buenos Aires and took 18th place (tournament was won by Vera Menchik). After World War II, she continued to participate in chess tournaments
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Simonson 12–23 July Chess IV Women's World Chess Championship International Vera Menchik 14 July Motor race Mannin Moar International Brian Lewis, Baron Essendon
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English chess player
Folkestone 1933 (the 4th Women's World Chess Championship), both won by Vera Menchik. She was the wife of Reginald Pryce Michell. 1939 UK Census, Kingston-upon-Thames
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no Women's World Chess Championship for the next ten years. Meanwhile, Menchik died in England in 1944 in a German air raid, so the next championship
Women's World Chess Championship 1939
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British chess player (1864–1932)
British Championship 1904, Hastings, 10. Oktober 2017 Robert B. Tanner: Vera Menchik. McFarland, Jefferson 2016. p. 8 John Saunders: Grace Moore Curling (née
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