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	Vera Menchik by Bill Wall
		Vera Francevna Menchik (Mencikova) was born in Moscow, Russia on Feb 16, 1906.
		Vera learned chess in 1915 when she was 9, taught to her by her father.
		Vera was the only woman to play in men's tournaments is the first half of the 20th century.
	www.geocities.com /siliconvalley/lab/7378/menchik.htm (803 words)

	Vera Menchik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vera Menchik (Czech: Věra Menčíková, February 16, 1906, Moscow – June 26, 1944, Kent, England) was a British-Czech female chess player and the first Women's World Champion in chess.
		Vera Menchik won two matches against Sonja Graf for the Women’s World Champion title; (+3 –1 =0) at Rotterdam 1934, and (+9 –2 =5) at Semmering 1937.
		Vera Menchik vs George Alan Thomas, Poděbrady 1936, Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (D11), 1-0 The chess queen queens another passed pawn in a Rook ending.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vera_Menchik (521 words)

	Vera Menchik - Chesspedia, the free chess encyclopedia Pushedpawn.org
		Vera Francevna Menchik (1906–1944) was a female chess player.
		Vera Menchik was older sister to Olga Menchik, also a chess player.
		While Vera was still reigning world champion, she, Olga, and their mother were all killed in a bombing raid on Kent, England in World War II.
	pushedpawn.org /test6/Vera_Menchik-Stevenson.htm (225 words)

	Vera Menchik; (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vera Menchik nacque a Mosca il 16 febbraio 1906 da papà cecoslovacco e mamma inglese.
		Vera, ancora adolescente, si trasferì in Inghilterra con la famiglia nei primi anni '20, dove prestissimo dimostrò il suo talento scacchistico sbancando il Campionato Inglese delle Ragazze.
		Vera partecipò per i vessilli russi e stravinse con lo strabiliante punteggio di 10½ su 11.
	www.kiosketto.it.cob-web.org:8888 /chess/menchik.html (783 words)

	Vera Menchik - VeraMenchik
		Vera Francevna Menchik (1906-1944) was a female chess player.
		The family moved to England in 1921, and Vera won the British girls' championship that year.
		Male chess players whom Menchik defeated in tournament play were said to belong to the Menchik club.
	www.kopete.org /Vera-Menchik.html (176 words)

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		In 1927, Menchik won the first women's world chess championship, a competition she would win each time she participated.
		Her technique would bring her victory in the women's chess championship as well as over male opponents, and the men that she defeated were said to belong to the "Menchik Club".
		Had a highly succesful run throughout eight women world championships, and the trophy for the winning team in the Women's Chess Olympiad is now known as the Vera Menchik Cup.
	www.professorchess.com /biographies/menchik.htm (141 words)

	Daily Chess Columns
		IN 1927, when Britain's Vera Menchik won the newly-formed Women's World Championship crown, she was regarded as a phenomenon in the women's game, and in the process had established for herself a unique and uncompromising place in the evolution of women's chess.
		After Menchik, there followed Georgia's Nona Gaprindashvili and Maya Chiburdanidze, both of whom achieving full GM titles, though very limited success against the opposite sex in the international arena.
		The real breakthrough for women's chess came with the rise of Hungary's Judit Polgar, who in 1981 caused a major sensation when she became a grandmaster at men's level at 15 years three months, eclipsing by two months Bobby Fischer's historic age record set in at the 1958 Interzonal.
	www.chessbase.com /columns/column.asp?pid=104 (381 words)

	The chess games of Vera Menchik (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vera Francevna Menchik was born to English and Czech parents, on the 16th of February, 1906, in Moscow.
		Vera Menchik was Women's World Champion from 1927 until 1944, when a German air raid destroyed her London residence, killing her and two others.
		: The question regarding whether Menchik died in London or Kent seems to be positively settled in favour of the former.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=13277 (1054 words)

	Sanarate, El Progreso, Guatemala.
		In the middle of the 19th century, women's chess clubs started to become popular, and in 1884 the first women's tournament was sponsored in Sussex, England.
		The first women's world champion was Vera Menchik in 1927.
		Sadly, Vera Menchik was killed in a London air raid in 1944; but she'd already set the pace for other women to follow.
	www.sanarate.com /Deportes/chess/women_chess.html (903 words)

	Vera Menchik (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The family moved to England when Vera was 15, where she first attracted attention by winning the British girl's championship.
		She was killed in a bombing raid in 1944, at the age of 38.
		For an entertaining recounting of Vera Menchik's various triumphs against the greatest male players of her era, please visit The Vera Menchik Club.
	www.goddesschess.com.cob-web.org:8888 /chess%20goddesses/veramenchik.html (293 words)

	Vera Menchik Club - May 17, 2004 - Evans on Chess - Chess News - World Chess Network
		The Vera Menchik Club once was the most exclusive club in chess.
		Vera was born in Moscow of a Czech father and British mother.
		Viennese master George Becker was so scornful of organizers inviting her to tournaments that he suggested anyone who lost to her should be granted membership in the Vera Menchik Club.
	www.worldchessnetwork.com /English/chessNews/evans/040517.php (479 words)

	Chess Trivia
		World Woman Champion Vera Menchik defended her title six times, scoring 78 wins, 4 draws, ond only 1 loss.
		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.
	www.logicalchess.com /info/trivia/m.html (2309 words)

	the history of the Women's World Championship
		Vera Menchik (URSS then England, 1906-1944) won the first Women's World Championship - a tournament organized by FIDE in 1927.
		She also won every WWC (the next six women's championship tournaments in 1930-39) until her untimely death in a WWII bombing raid in 1944.
		After Menchik's death, FIDE held a 16-player tournament in Moscow during the winter of 1949-50 to fill the vacancy.
	www.angelfire.com /games/SBChess/now2.html (749 words)

	Chess Information > Vera Menchik > Vera Menchik Blog Entries : Information E.G. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Sunday 10th of September 2006 01:27:00 PM vera menchik (v?ra men?íková), filha de pai checo e mãe britânica, nasceu em 16 de...
		Sunday 20th of August 2006 12:00:00 AM in het interbellum was vera menchik onbetwist de sterkste schaakster.
		Monday 17th of April 2006 05:23:00 AM there was vera menchik competing with men and doing quite well and then you had to wait until nona gapriandashvili (sixties) and maia chiburdanidze (seventies) came up.
	www.chess-recreation.information-eg.com /chess/vera-menchik/posts (411 words)

	TIME.com: Queen's Gambit -- Aug. 12, 1929 -- Page 2
		Miss Vera Menchik of Russia is a resident of England but listed as a Russian entrant.
		She was born in Czechoslovakia, raised in Moscow, has lived in Hastings for the last five years.
		It is safe to say that whatever victories she wins will be well earned, as chess professionals are notable for their complete lack of anything approaching an amateur sporting spirit and are not likely to let chivalry interfere with art.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,732770-2,00.html (544 words)

	Vera Menchik - Everything on Vera Menchik (information, latest news, articles,...)
		Vera Menchik - Everything on Vera Menchik (information, latest news, articles,...)
		Vera Francevna Menchik (1906 - 1944) was a female chess player.
		Menchik won the first Women's World Championship in 1927 and successfully defended her title in every other championship in her lifetime (1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937 and 1939).
	www.spiritus-temporis.com /vera-menchik (194 words)

	Frederic Lazard vs Vera Menchik (1929) "From Russia With Love" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		If nothing else, it is a good psychological ploy against a back player hoping for an easy initiative against the Bird--and the King's Gambit, although double edged and tactical, does not give fl such an easy initiative.
		After the ensuing exchanges and white is "forced" to return the queen it is only then to white's dismay, it is he that is going down a piece!
		Vera Menchik: 1st official women worldchampion: 17 years
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessgame?gid=1258249 (1067 words)

	Star Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vera Menchik (Woman World Champion 1927-44) was the first woman player to face the top masters with a fair amount of success.
		She defeated quite a few strong players like Samuel Reshevsky, FD Yates, Mir Sultan Khan, Sir George Thomas etc. In those days the defeated men were known as 'Menchik Club'.
		Menchik was born in Prague in 1906 and married a Briton.
	www.thedailystar.net /magazine/2004/03/02/time.htm (335 words)

	World Chess Championship for Women (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The 1927 Women's Championship was won by Vera Francevna Menchik, born 1906 in Moscow, daughter of a Czech father and an English mother.
		Menchik won all seven events, losing only one game and drawing four out of 83 games played.
		The death by enemy action of Miss Vera Menchik removes not only the greatest woman chess player of all times but a charming personality.
	chess.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /library/weekly/aa04c20.htm (2159 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Strongest women player in the history of the game, Vera Menchik was born in Moscow and though her father was a Czechoslavak and her mother English, she played most of her games under English colours.
		Vera Menchik also played well in men's tournaments, like the British Championship and her best performance in international Chess Championship was a second place with Rubinstein in the Ramsgate Team Practice tournament ahead of her old teacher, Maro'czy.
		Still it can hardly be denied that Ivanchuk did not play at his best and he never really recovered from the psychological blow of losing the first match.
	www.tenagakembar.nl /Champions.html (7445 words)

	Chessville - Fiction - Perry the PawnPusher - by Rick Kennedy
		Once again, I reached back to the days of the old chess studio for a quote from the great Alekhine “Vera Menchik is an extremely capable chess player; if she continues her work and training, she will graduate from her current status as an average master and become a first-class International Master.”
		I shook my head slowly and solemnly, but it was hard not to let a grin slide over my face.
		She had caused quite a stir in her last few tournaments, however, and the comparison was a good one.
	www.chessville.com /misc/Fiction/Perry_the_PawnPusher/The_Vera_Menchik_Club.htm (787 words)

	Vera Menchik vs George Alan Thomas (1936) "A Lady's Touch" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Vera Menchik vs George Alan Thomas (1936) "A Lady's Touch"
		: Wasn't Thomas the guy who mockingly said that players who lose to Menchik should be in "The Vera Menchik Club" only to lose to her right after?
		: My understanding was that it was Vidmar, not Thomas who suggested a Vera Menchik club for those who lost to Menchik.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessgame?gid=1266513 (752 words)

	Chess Notes by Edward Winter
		Chess writers seldom compose more than a few lines about Vera Menchik without mentioning that male players defeated by her became, ipso facto, members of the Vera Menchik Club, but what is known for sure about the origins of this cardinal component of chess lore?
		The invitation to Vera Menchik to compete among such players as Capablanca, Euwe, Tartakower and Nimzowitsch was received with amusement by many of the masters.
		The Viennese master Becker was particularly scornful, and in the presence of a number of the competitors he suggested that anyone who lost to Vera Menchik should be granted membership of the Menchik Club.
	www.chesshistory.com /winter/winter01.html (7136 words)

	Champion queen topples king.(SATURDAY)(CHESS) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the least popular clubs in the history of chess has to be the Vera Menchik Club, named for the great Russo-British player who dominated women's chess in the decades before her untimely death in 1943 during the London Blitz.
		The male rivals she defeated - including former Dutch world champ Max Euwe, U.S. great Sammy Reshevsky and British GM Frederick Yates - were jokingly said to be members of the mythical Menchik Club.
		New FIDE women's world champ Zhu Chen of China might be considering forming her own club, with FIDE men's champ Ruslan Ponomariov as a charter inductee.
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-1733460_ITM (243 words)

	China wins by a whisker
		In a marathon 14-round event, they won the gold medal while Georgia which dominated in the first 10 rounds faltered in the end.
		The champion took home the Vera Menchik Cup, after finishing first at Bled, in Solvenia, on November 10.
		China, the dominant force in world women's chess, is winning the Olympiad for the third time is a row.
	www.hinduonnet.com /tss/tss2548/25480660.htm (2781 words)

	MrFixitOnline.com :: View topic - Queens of chess
		There have been 10 women's world champions in the history of the game.
		Born in Moscow of Czechoslavakian-British extraction, Vera Menchik was easily the strongest female player of her time, having at one time or other beaten most of the strongest players in the world (the defeated became members of the "Vera Menchik Club").
		In 1927 she won the first Women's World Championship tournament with a score of 10.5 out of 11.
	www.mrfixitonline.com /viewtopic.php?t=445 (621 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Here are some chess puzzles from the games of Vera Menchik.
		White to move and win except where noted.
		Vera Menchik vs Maria Mora Iturralde, Buenos Aires, 1939
	www.wtharvey.com /menc.html (53 words)

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