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...

presenter Vera Menchik (1906–1944), British chess player Vera Michalski (born 1954), Swiss publisher Vera Miles (born 1929), American actress Vera Mischenko...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

first certified female dentist in Britain", published March 21, 2023 Vera Menchik, first women's world chess champion, published September 2, 2022 Regina...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...