Olga Menchik

Olga Menchik (Menčíková, Menčik) Rubery (1907, Moscow – 26 June 1944, Clapham, London) was a Czech–British female chess master.

Born in Moscow into a Czech (father) – British (mother) family, she was younger sister to Vera Menchik. They all moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship, and Olga took second place.^[1]

She took fourth place in the fifth Women's World Chess Championship at Warsaw 1935,^[2] and tied for 17-20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937^[3] (Vera Menchik won both events).

She married a British man, Clifford Granville Rubery.^[4] Olga, aged 37,^[4] her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German V-1 flying bomb hit her home at 47 Gauden Road, Clapham, south London, in 1944.^[5]^[4]

References

^ "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2013-07-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ ultim8games.com^{[dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c [1] CWGC Casualty Record, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough.
^ Girls in Chess, way back "Then"! Archived February 13, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on October 28, 2009. Retrieved 2013-07-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[2] GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

[3] ultim8games.com^{[dead link]}

[cwgc-4] [1] CWGC Casualty Record, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough.

[5] Girls in Chess, way back "Then"! Archived February 13, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

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