Marie Jeanne Stein (''née'' Frigard; 30 October 1904, Grimaud – 29 July 1971,

Ivry-sur-Seine Ivry-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Paris's main Asian district, the Quartier Asiatique in the 13th arrondissement, borders the ...

) was a French chess player and classical

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ist. She was a four-time French Women's Chess Champion (1924, 1925, 1926, 1927). She was a participant in the first

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in 1927.

Biography

In 1924, Frigard won the first French Women's Chess Championship in Paris after a playoff. She repeated this success three times from 1925 to 1927. In 1925 and 1927 she finished in second place but was nevertheless crowned the French women's champion, because the

Paulette Schwartzmann Paulette Schwartzmann (November 19, 1894 – 1953?) was a French- Argentine chess player. Born in Kamenetz, Russian Empire, she emigrated to France around 1915. Schwartzmann won seven times the French women's chess championship (1927, 1928, 19 ...

, the winner of both tournaments, did not have French citizenship. In 1924, she finished second out of three players in a women's amateur chess tournament in

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. In 1927 she participated in the first

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won by

Vera Menchik Vera Francevna Mencikova (russian: Вера Францевна Менчик, ''Vera Frantsevna Menchik''; cz, Věra Menčíková; 16 February 1906 – 26 June 1944), was a Russian-born Czechoslovak chess player who primarily resided in En ...

, where she shared 9th–11th places. After 1927 she rarely participated in chess tournaments. Marie Jeanne Frigard played violin from the age of seven. In 1920s and 1930s she was a famous classical violinist. In 1928, she was the first violin of the Saint-Denis Orchestra took part in guest performances in Canada. During the

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, Frigard lived in

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, where she was deported in 1943 or 1944. From 15 September 1944 to 23 March 1945, she worked at a Nazi labor camp in Dresden making radios.

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Marie Jeanne Frigard
chess games at chessbase.com 1904 births 1971 deaths Sportspeople from Var (department) French female chess players 20th-century French women classical violinists {{France-chess-bio-stub