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Vera Menchik
Sign in to saveAlso known as Vera Francevna Menchik-Stevenson, Vera Francevna Menchik, Vera Francevna Mencikova
Czech chess player (1906–1944)
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It sits within the topics 1906 births, 1944 deaths and 20th-century British chess players.
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Key facts
- Born
- Vera Francevna Mencikova , ( 1906-02-16 ) 16 February 1906, Moscow, Russia
- Died
- 26 June 1944 (1944-06-26) (aged 38), Clapham , London, England
- Country
- Russia (before 1928), Czechoslovakia (1930–1937), England (1938–1944)
- Women s world champion
- 1927–1944
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Czechoslovakia
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Clapham
- Sibling
- Olga Menchik
- Occupation
- chess player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Women's World Chess Championship 1939
- Sport
- chess
- Country for sport
- Czechoslovakia
- Image
- Vera Menchik 1933.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1906-02-16
- date of death
- 1944-06-26
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Encyclopedic overview
Vera Francevna Mencikova (Russian: Вера Францевна Менчик, Vera Frantsevna Menchik; Czech: Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England. She was the first and longest-reigning Women's World Chess Champion from 1927 to 1944, winning the championship a record eight times primarily in round-robin tournaments. In an era when women primarily competed against other women, Menchik was the first and only woman competing in master-level tournaments with the world's best players.
Menchik was born in Moscow to a Czech father and English mother. She began playing chess competitively in school at age 14 not long before the Russian Revolution led her family to leave Russia and move to England in 1921. She joined the Hastings Chess Club in 1923, where she began training with James Drewitt and Géza Maróczy. Menchik established herself as the best female player in the country in 1925 by defeating the British women's champion Edith Price in two matches, and then the world by winning the inaugural Women's World Chess Championship in 1927.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vera Menchik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.