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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 eight times primarily in round-robin tournaments. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vera Menchik has received more than 297,301 page views. Her biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Vera Menchik is the 21st most popular chess player (up from 23rd in 2019), the 367th most popular biography from Russia (up from 393rd 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 21 out of 374. Before her are Paul Morphy, Samuel Reshevsky, Vasily Smyslov, Adolf Anderssen, Paul Keres, and Viktor Korchnoi. After her are Ruy López de Segura, Siegbert Tarrasch, Richard Réti, Akiba Rubinstein, Miguel Najdorf, and Judit Polgár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Vera Menchik ranks 59. Before her are Ernst Chain, Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Empress Wanrong, Albert Sabin, Max Delbrück, and Ettore Majorana. After her are James Hadley Chase, Fredric Brown, Anthony Mann, André Weil, Muzafer Sherif, and Douglas McGregor. Among people deceased in 1944, Vera Menchik ranks 61. Before her are Bronislav Kaminski, Mohammed Alim Khan, George Stinney, Walter Nowotny, Otto von Below, and Princess Mafalda of Savoy. After her are Jean Giraudoux, Christian Wirth, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal, Günther Korten, Leo Baekeland, and Harold Lowe.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vera Menchik ranks 367 out of 3,262. Before her are Henri Troyat (1911), Sergey Ilyushin (1894), Vasily Dokuchaev (1846), Vladimir Kryuchkov (1924), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), and Anna Netrebko (1971). After her are Jani Beg (1300), Ivan Serov (1905), Lovis Corinth (1858), Vasily Perov (1834), Oleg Penkovsky (1919), and Ivan Silayev (1930).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

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

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