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Vera Menchik

1906 - 1944

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Vera Francevna Mencikova (Russian: Вера Францевна Менчик, Vera Frantsevna Menchik; Czech: Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in England. She was the first and longest-reigning Women's World Chess Champion from 1927 to 1944, winning the championship a record eight times primarily in round-robin tournaments. In an era when women primarily competed against other women, Menchik was the first and only woman competing in master-level tournaments with the world's best players. Menchik was born in Moscow to a Czech father and English mother. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vera Menchik is the 26th most popular chess player (up from 31st in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from Russia (up from 512th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Chess Player.

Vera Menchik was most famous for being the first woman to win a world chess championship.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Vera Menchik ranks 26 out of 461. Before her are Nona Gaprindashvili, Viktor Korchnoi, Ruy López de Segura, Samuel Reshevsky, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Judit Polgár. After her are Akiba Rubinstein, Johannes Zukertort, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Mikhail Chigorin, Richard Réti, and Miguel Najdorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Vera Menchik ranks 65. Before her are Marcel Carné, Edmond Debeaumarché, Bugsy Siegel, Luis Federico Leloir, J. R. Jayewardene, and James Hadley Chase. After her are André Weil, John Dickson Carr, Markos Vafeiadis, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Anthony Mann, and Horst Schumann. Among people deceased in 1944, Vera Menchik ranks 66. Before her are Jakob von Uexküll, Jean Giraudoux, Mildred Harris, Hans-Valentin Hube, Kasturba Gandhi, and Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel. After her are Walter Nowotny, George Stinney, Thomas Curtis, Friedrich Dollmann, Otto von Below, and E. M. Antoniadi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Menchik ranks 368 out of 3,761. Before her are Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817), Dmitri Ivanovsky (1864), Jani Beg (1300), and Nikolai Patrushev (1951). After her are Onfim (1250), Svetlana Savitskaya (1948), Yuri Oganessian (1933), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), Sergey Nechayev (1847), and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Vera Menchik ranks 7. Before her are Boris Spassky (1937), Alexander Alekhine (1892), Mikhail Botvinnik (1911), Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), and Viktor Korchnoi (1931). After her are Mikhail Chigorin (1850), Savielly Tartakower (1887), Olga Rubtsova (1909), Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), and Alexander Kotov (1913).

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