| LC control no. | nr 90010192 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Menchik, Vera, 1906-1944 |
| Variant(s) | Menchikova, Vera, 1906-1944 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000047389982 68777914 Q157867 |
| Associated country | England |
| Associated place | St. Leonards (East Sussex, England) |
| Birth date | 1906 |
| Death date | 1944 |
| Place of birth | Moscow (Russia) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Chess--Tournaments |
| Affiliation | British Chess Federation |
| Profession or occupation | Chess players Editors Authors |
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| Found in | Bykova, E. I. Vera Menchik, 1957: p. (b. 1906) p. 22 (d. 1944) New York times, Sept. 5, 2022: in an obituary in the "Overlooked" series on page A16 (Vera Menchik, born Vera Franceva Menchikova on 16 Feb. 1906 in Moscow, died June 26, 1944 in [London] England, aged 38; she was the world's first women's chess champion and the first woman to play regularly alongside men; the Menchik family left Russia in 1921 -- her mother, an Englishwoman, took Vera and her sister to grow up in St. Leonards, a town near Hastings in Britain; Vera Menchik also worked in the administration of the British Chess Federation, and at Chess [magazine] as an editor and columnist) |
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