▪️ Vera Menchik
▪️ British-Czechoslovak-Russian Chess Master
▪️ The world’s first women’s chess champion
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▪️ British-Czechoslovak-Russian Chess Master
▪️ The world’s first women’s chess champion
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◼️ Today is deid-day of Vera Menchik
▪️ Vera Menchik
▪️ British-Czechoslovak-Russian Chess Master
▪️ The world’s first women’s chess champion
✔️ The world’s first women’s chess champion, Vera Menchik was born in Russia in 1906, learned chess at age nine, and moved to England as a teenager in 1921. Over the course of her career, she competed for Russia, Czechoslovakia, and England. She became the first Women's World Champion in 1927, and successfully defended her title six times over the next 17 years. She would lose only one game over the course of these seven championship tournaments.
✔️ Menchik defeated many men in tournament play, including Max Euwe and Samuel Reshevsky. They and other notable players she beat became members of what was known as the "Vera Menchik Club." From 1929 onward, she was a fixture at Hastings Congress tournaments, as well as at other international competitions. One of her greatest successes was at Ramsgate 1929, when she tied for second with Akiba Rubenstein just a half-point behind Jose Raul Capablanca and ahead of her teacher Géza Maróczy. She won matches against Jacques Mieses in 1942 and Sonja Graf in 1934 and 1937. Menchik’s career was cut tragically short when she, her two sisters, and their mother were killed in a V-1 rocket bombing raid at their South London home in June 1944. The Women's Olympiad trophy is known as the Vera Menchik Cup in her honor.
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▪️ Vera Menchik
▪️ British-Czechoslovak-Russian Chess Master
▪️ The world’s first women’s chess champion
✔️ The world’s first women’s chess champion, Vera Menchik was born in Russia in 1906, learned chess at age nine, and moved to England as a teenager in 1921. Over the course of her career, she competed for Russia, Czechoslovakia, and England. She became the first Women's World Champion in 1927, and successfully defended her title six times over the next 17 years. She would lose only one game over the course of these seven championship tournaments.
✔️ Menchik defeated many men in tournament play, including Max Euwe and Samuel Reshevsky. They and other notable players she beat became members of what was known as the "Vera Menchik Club." From 1929 onward, she was a fixture at Hastings Congress tournaments, as well as at other international competitions. One of her greatest successes was at Ramsgate 1929, when she tied for second with Akiba Rubenstein just a half-point behind Jose Raul Capablanca and ahead of her teacher Géza Maróczy. She won matches against Jacques Mieses in 1942 and Sonja Graf in 1934 and 1937. Menchik’s career was cut tragically short when she, her two sisters, and their mother were killed in a V-1 rocket bombing raid at their South London home in June 1944. The Women's Olympiad trophy is known as the Vera Menchik Cup in her honor.
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The origins of this picture supposedly of Hitler and Lenin playing chess are still shrouded in mystery.
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AVRO Tournament, Netherlands 1938. Rd. 9 (11th Nov.; played in Arnhem) - Alekhine v. Capablanca.
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✅ #Horowitz_chess_quotes_002
🔸 Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 Jewish-American International Master
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🔸 Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 Jewish-American International Master
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✅ #about_Horowitz
🔸 Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 Jewish-American International Master
🔰 Israel Albert Horowitz was a Jewish-American International Master of chess. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess.
🔘 Full name: Israel Albert Horowitz
🔘 Country: United States
🔘 Born: November 15, 1907
🔘 Brooklyn, New York
🔘 Died: January 18, 1973 (aged 65)
🔘 Title: International Master; chess author, columnist, magazine owner
🔰 Horowitz was the chess columnist for The New York Times, writing three columns a week for ten years. He was the owner and editor of Chess Review magazine from 1933 until it was bought out and taken over by the United States Chess Federation in 1969 and merged into Chess Life. Chess Review magazine was founded in 1933 as a partnership between Horowitz and Isaac Kashdan; however, Kashdan dropped out after just a few issues and Horowitz became sole owner. Before that, Horowitz had been a securities trader on Wall Street. He had been partners with chess masters Maurice Shapiro, Mickey Pauley, Albert Pinkus and Maurice Wertheim. Horowitz dropped out and devoted himself to chess, while the others stayed on Wall Street.
🔰 Horowitz was a leading player in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s. He was U.S. Open Champion in 1936, 1938, and 1943. In 1941, he lost a match (+0−3=13) with Samuel Reshevsky for the U.S. Chess Championship. He played on the U.S. Team in four Chess Olympiads, in 1931, 1935, 1937, and 1950; the first three of which were won by the U.S. In a famous USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945, Horowitz scored one of the only two wins for the U.S. by defeating GM Salo Flohr. He split his "mini-match" of two games against Flohr, and in the 1946 edition of the same event, split his mini-match against Isaac Boleslavsky.
♦️ A memorable game by Horowitz👇
🔸 Samuel Reshevsky vs Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 Rosenwald (1955/56), New York, NY USA, rd 6, Dec-25
🔸 Benoni Defense: King's Indian System (A56)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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🔸 Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 Jewish-American International Master
🔰 Israel Albert Horowitz was a Jewish-American International Master of chess. He is most remembered today for the books he wrote about chess.
🔘 Full name: Israel Albert Horowitz
🔘 Country: United States
🔘 Born: November 15, 1907
🔘 Brooklyn, New York
🔘 Died: January 18, 1973 (aged 65)
🔘 Title: International Master; chess author, columnist, magazine owner
🔰 Horowitz was the chess columnist for The New York Times, writing three columns a week for ten years. He was the owner and editor of Chess Review magazine from 1933 until it was bought out and taken over by the United States Chess Federation in 1969 and merged into Chess Life. Chess Review magazine was founded in 1933 as a partnership between Horowitz and Isaac Kashdan; however, Kashdan dropped out after just a few issues and Horowitz became sole owner. Before that, Horowitz had been a securities trader on Wall Street. He had been partners with chess masters Maurice Shapiro, Mickey Pauley, Albert Pinkus and Maurice Wertheim. Horowitz dropped out and devoted himself to chess, while the others stayed on Wall Street.
🔰 Horowitz was a leading player in the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s. He was U.S. Open Champion in 1936, 1938, and 1943. In 1941, he lost a match (+0−3=13) with Samuel Reshevsky for the U.S. Chess Championship. He played on the U.S. Team in four Chess Olympiads, in 1931, 1935, 1937, and 1950; the first three of which were won by the U.S. In a famous USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945, Horowitz scored one of the only two wins for the U.S. by defeating GM Salo Flohr. He split his "mini-match" of two games against Flohr, and in the 1946 edition of the same event, split his mini-match against Isaac Boleslavsky.
♦️ A memorable game by Horowitz👇
🔸 Samuel Reshevsky vs Israel Albert Horowitz
🔸 Rosenwald (1955/56), New York, NY USA, rd 6, Dec-25
🔸 Benoni Defense: King's Indian System (A56)
♦️ Review and download PGN file👇
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69... Qf4+?
69... Qh4!
A forced winning continuation for Black.
70. Qe3 Qh1+ 71. Qg1 Qh6 72. Rd1 72... Qf4+ 73. Ke2 Qe4+ 74. Kd2 Nb4
70. Qf3 Qxd2 71.Qf7+ with perpetual check.
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69... Qh4!
A forced winning continuation for Black.
70. Qe3 Qh1+ 71. Qg1 Qh6 72. Rd1 72... Qf4+ 73. Ke2 Qe4+ 74. Kd2 Nb4
70. Qf3 Qxd2 71.Qf7+ with perpetual check.
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