1944 in chess

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The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1944.

Chess events in brief[]

  • 27 June 1944 – Vera Manchik-Stevenson, first official Women's World Chess Champion (since 1927), represented Russia (1927), Czechoslovakia (1930–37), and England (1939), who was widowed the previous year, still holding the title, her younger sister, Olga Menchik-Rubery, and their mother were killed in a V-1 rocket bombing raid which destroyed their home at 47 Gauden Road in the Clapham area of South London. According to some sources, Kent was the place of their death.[1][2]

Tournaments[]

Matches[]

  • Carlos Guimard defeated Juan Iliesco (6 : 2) in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
  • Héctor Rossetto beat Juan Iliesco (4,5 : 0,5) in Nueve de Julio (23rd ARG-ch).
  • Erich Eliskases beat João de Souza Mendes (7 : 3) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Stepan Popel drew with Fedor Bogatyrchuk (2 : 2) in Kraków, General Government.
  • Paul Keres beat Folke Ekström (5 : 1) in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Alexander Alekhine won against Ramón Rey Ardid (2,5 : 1,5) in Saragossa, Spain.
  • On 2 December 1944 Bletchley Park defeated the Oxford University Chess Club in a twelve-board team match 8 : 4. C.H.O'D. Alexander, Harry Golombek, James Macrae Aitken, and I. J. Good played the top four boards for the Bletchley Park team.[3]

Births[]

  • 12 January – Vlastimil Hort in Kladno, Czech GM
  • 19 February – Chen Zude, President of the Chinese Chess Association
  • 6 April – Florin Gheorghiu, Romania's first GM, nine-time winner of the Romanian Championship
  • 6 April – Jude Acers in Long Beach, California, American chess player
  • 16 April – , German GM
  • 18 April – Albin Planinc in , Slovenian GM
  • 27 April – Heikki Westerinen in Helsinki, Finnish GM, four-time winner of the Finnish Championship
  • 5 May – Roman Dzindzichashvili in Tbilisi, Russian/American GM, two time US Champion
  • 26 May – Ljuba Kristol in Leningrad, Israeli ICCGM, two-time World Correspondence Champion
  • 1 July – , Croatian GM
  • 4 July – Albert Kapengut in Kazan, Soviet chess player and coach
  • 4 July – Silvino García Martínez, Cuban GM
  • 5 September – Jørn Sloth in , Danish GMC, World Correspondence Champion 1975–1980
  • 7 September – Sam Sloan in Richmond, Virginia, American chess player and writer
  • 25 September – Vitaly Tseshkovsky in Omsk, Russian GM and two-time winner of the USSR Championship (died 2011)
  • 15 November – Hans Ree in Amsterdam, Dutch GM and chess writer
  • Rani Hamid, Bangladeshi WIM, three-time winner of the British Women's Championship

Deaths[]

  • Wilhelm Orbach, German master, murdered in Auschwitz.
  • Jorgen Moeller, Danish master, died in Denmark. Nordic Chess Champion (1899 and 1901), the Moeller Attack in the Giuoco Piano and the Moeller Defense in the Ruy Lopez.
  • Nikoly Rudnev, Ukrainian master, died probably in Uzbekistan.
  • 3 February – Albert Hodges, 1894 US Chess Champion
  • ca. 9 February Dawid Daniuszewski, Polish master, died in the Lodz Ghetto.
  • ca. 9 February Salomon Szapiro, Polish master, died in the Lodz Ghetto.
  • 12 April – Roberto Grau died in Buenos Aires. South American and Argentine Champion.
  • 3 June – Adolf Zinkl, Austrian master, died in Vienna.
  • 27 June – Vera Menchik, the 1st Women's World Chess Champion, died in a German bombing raid, London, England.
  • 27 June – Olga Menchik, the younger sister of Vera, died in a German bombing raid, London, England.
  • 2 November – Karol Irzykowski, Polish master, died in Żyrardów.
  • 9 November – Frank James Marshall, American grandmaster, died in Jersey City, USA.
  • 29 December – Endre Steiner, Hungarian master, murdered in a Nazi concentration camp.

References[]

  1. ^ "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Archived from the original on 2009-10-21.
  2. ^ "Title Unknown". Archived from the original on 2009-10-20.
  3. ^ Chess Notes 4034. The code-breakers by Edward Winter; based on a report from CHESS, February 1945, p. 73.

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