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Vera Menchik

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Vera Menchik
  • Birth Name:
    Věra Menčíková
  • Date of Birth:
    February 16, 1906
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Aquarius
  • Place of Birth:
    Moscow
  • Place of Death:
    London
  • Date of Death:
    June 27, 1944
  • Sex:
    Female
  • Nationality:
    Czech

Family

Vera Menchik
  • Sister:
    Olga
  • Spouse:
    Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson

Career

Vera Menchik

Trivia

Vera Menchik
  • In 1942 she won a match against Jacques Mieses (4 wins, 5 draws, 1 loss).
  • Starting in 1929, she participated in a number of Hastings Congress tournaments.
  • She won two matches against Sonja Graf for the Women’s World Champion title; (+3 –1 =0) at Rotterdam 1934, and (+9 –2 =5) at Semmering 1937.
  • She won the first Women's World Championship in 1927 and successfully defended her title 6 times in every other championship in her lifetime, and only lost one game, while winning 78 and drawing 4 games.
  • She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, defeating many of them, including World Champion Max Euwe.
  • Was a British-Czech chess player who gained renown as the world's first women's chess champion.

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