Vera Francevna Menchik-Stevenson

Vera Francevna Menchik-Stevenson (born February 16, 1906, Moscow, Russian Empire—died June 26, 1944, London, England) was a Russian-born British international chess master who was the women’s world chess champion from 1927 until her death. Menchik learned to play chess at the age of nine from her father. In 1921 her family moved to England, where she studied with the Hungarian chess master Géza Maróczy, whose style greatly influenced her. The first women’s world championship, which...