Menchik
Menchik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Olga Menchik (1907–1944), British chess player * Vera Menchik (1906–1944), British-Russian chess player {{Short pages monitor ...
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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. She took fourth place in the fifth Women's World Chess Championship at Warsaw 1935, and tied for 17-20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937 (Vera Menchik won both events). She married a British man, Clifford Granville Rubery.
CWGC Casualty Record, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough. Olga, aged 37, her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German
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