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| USSR player. Woman World Champion, 1927-1944. Trivia by Bill Wall World Woman Champion Vera Menchik defended her title six times, scoring 78 wins, 4 draws, ond only 1 loss. In 1927 she won the first Women's World Chess Championship with 10 1/2 out of 11. She played in her first world championship as a Russian, the next five as a Czech, and the last one as a Briton. She died in Kent in June 1944 after a German V-1 rocket hit her home, killing her mother and her sister, Mrs. Olga Rubery (world challenger in 1935 and 1937). Vera's husband, R.H.S. Stevenson, was the secretary of the British Chess Federation who died in 1943. At the time of her death, Vera was serving on the editorial staff of "Chess" as games editor. |
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