Vera Francevna Mencikova (Russian: Вера Францевна Менчик, Vera Frantsevna Menchik; Czech: Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born...

Menchik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Olga Menchik (1907–1944), British chess player Vera Menchik (1906–1944), British-Russian...

was younger sister to Vera Menchik, the Women's World Chess Champion. They all moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship...

Vera Maxwell (1901–1995), American sportswear and fashion designer Vera McKechnie (born 1929), British children's television presenter Vera Menchik (1906–1944)...

After their 1934 match (won +3 =0 -1 by Menchik), reigning Women's World Chess Champion Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf played a second championship match...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

Boris Spassky. 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....

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. Interregnum...

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...

actress Alfred Marshall Donald Maxwell (illustrator) Noel McKoy – singer Vera Menchik – Women's World Chess Champion Heather Mills – model Julie Myerson Chris...

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...

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...

Svetlana Matveeva (born 1969) Isaak Mazel (1911–1943) Olga Menchik (1908–1946) Vera Menchik (1906–1944) Vladas Mikėnas (1910–1992) Adrian Mikhalchishin...

January 1 in the year of competition. He scored 11–0 at Toronto 1957. Vera Menchik won four consecutive Women's World Chess Championship tournaments with...

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...

Kosteniuk and Oxana Kosteniuk Alisa Marić and Mirjana Marić Vera Menchik and Olga Menchik Anna Muzychuk and Mariya Muzychuk Mai Narva and Triin Narva...

Alexander Alekhine, Max Euwe, Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, and Vera Menchik. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living grandmaster (since...

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...

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...

Women's World Championship is held in conjunction with the Olympiad. Vera Menchik (Czechoslovakia) easily retains her title. The Bulgarian Championship...

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...

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...

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...

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...