María Angélica Berea (13 April 1914, in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

– 5 July 1983, in

El Palomar, Buenos Aires El Palomar is a town in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires in Argentina. It is located north-west of the Buenos Aires. The city has the peculiarity of being divided between two partidos of Buenos Aires Province: Morón, where it is ...

Gaige, p. 33) was an Argentine chess

Woman International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

(WIM) and women's champion of Argentina in 1951. With the married name of María Angélica Berea de Montero, she participated in the

Women's World Chess Championship 1939 The 7th Women's World Chess Championship took place during the 1939 Olympiad in Buenos Aires. The final results were as follows: : As a result of her outspoken defiance of Hitler's government, Sonja Graf Susanna "Sonja" Graf (December 16, 1908 ...

in Buenos Aires (15th). She played in several national and South American tournaments, winning the Argentine title in 1951.Argentina History by Scalise
/ref> This let her play in the Candidates tournament of Moscow 1952 (penultimate place) and gave her the title of Woman International Master. Later, divorced, she married the chessplayer

Francisco Benkö Francisco (Franz) Benkö (Benkő, Benko) (24 June 1910 – 11 January 2010) was a German–Argentine chess master and problemist. He was born in Berlin into a Jewish family. His father, Richard Wilhelm Benkö, came from Hungary, and his mothe ...

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