Olga Menchik

Olga Menchik

Olga Menchik (Menčíková, Menčik) Rubery (1908, Moscow – 26 June 1944, Clapham, London) was a Czech–British female chess master.

Born in Moscow to a Czech father and a British mother, 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". Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
^ GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ ultim8games.com Archived 14 May 2007 at archive.today
^ ^a ^b ^c [1] CWGC Casualty Record, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough.
^ Girls in Chess, way back "Then"! Archived 13 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2013.

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

[3] ultim8games.com Archived 14 May 2007 at archive.today

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

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

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