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| Jul-02-05 | | Knight13: <Overall record: +67 -122 =70 (39.4%)*> Her overall record looks kinda bad. Was she a Master level player or a IM level player? |
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| Jul-03-05 | | Caissanist: She was certainly an IM-level player at least. I would argue that with the ongoing devaluation of the GM title she could be considered GM strength. Her status as the strongest woman ever to play the game seems to have gotten her invitations to many of the leading tournaments of the day; she wasn't really in that class and would finish last with scores like 1.5-14.5 or 3-18. |
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Jul-24-05
 | | chancho: She beat Sultan Khan? Wow, even Capa did not do that but wait, she could not beat Capa in any of their contested games. |
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| Nov-14-05 | | nikolaas: Note that she also had a younger sister Olga (1908-1944) who played chess quite well. |
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| Dec-18-05 | | Karpova: <Shah Mat: Polgar's dad is a chess coach, he brought all his daughters up playing the game since they were barely out of the diaper, and Polgar has access to huge databases of information and material in both literature and on disk that Menchik never had.> well, please don't forget that Menchik's trainer was no less than Geza Maroczy . so she probably had access to databases (like other masters at that time) and was not some sort of a female Capablanca. |
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| Jan-06-06 | | BIDMONFA: Vera Menchik MENCHIK, Vera
http://www.bidmonfa.com/menchik_ver...
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| Jan-09-06 | | Caissanist: <Polgar's dad is a chess coach, he brought all his daughters up playing the game since they were barely out of the diaper.> So far as I know the only people Laszlo has ever coached are his daughters. According to Susan Polgar, he is not even a particularly strong player--"He is today at best 1500-1600. He was much weaker when he taught me." There was an interesting article about the Polgars in Psychology Today a few months back. Laszlo Polgar did not choose chess as the focus for raising his daughters, at least not ahead of time. Rather, he had a theory that a good way to raise happy and successful children is to intense specialization in particular subject. But he didn't choose a particular area of specialization until Susan was four. When she showed interest in the game, Mommy and Daddy decided that this was a good area to concentrate on.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/arti... |
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| Jan-09-06 | | veigaman: Susan said that he wrote the famous chess books when she was younger instead of her father which means chess is just marketing. |
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| Feb-08-06 | | CapablancaFan: Was Vera the first notable female GM? |
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Feb-08-06
 | | Gypsy: Chessmetrics Player Profile: Vera Menchik (*1906, +1944); Best World Rank #52; Highest Rating 2535; (1929). |
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| Feb-16-06 | | duchamp64: The 100th anniversary of her birth today! Rest in peace, Vera. |
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| May-04-06 | | blackburne: VERA MENCHIK
Article in spanish with biography, results, and espectacular games in: http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/11%2...
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| Sep-01-06 | | Rocafella: Why shelter in the basement when she had an air raid shelter? |
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| Sep-23-06 | | Knight13: <Vera Menchik was Women's World Champion from 1927 until 1944, when a German air raid destroyed her London residence, killing her and two others.> Hitler was laughing, right? |
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| Sep-23-06 | | Rocafella: Spot the taste anybody |
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| Mar-18-07 | | zev22407: A new site on women playing chess is www.chessbabes.org |
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| Jul-28-07 | | Akuni: <CapablancaFan> She was not a GM as the GM was given only to the five original GMs (Lasker, Alekhine, Capa, Tarrasch and Marshall) after they won a strong tournament (St. Petersbug 1914 I think), and to exceptional soviet players who were given they title "Grandmaster of the Soviet Union". Otherwise it was used informally until FIDE instated and regulated it in 1950. However she was the first woman to succesfully participate successfully in international tournaments such as Hastings as well as winning ever Women's Championships she was in by huge scores (+78 -1 =4). |
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| Jan-15-08 | | Petrosianic: <Was Vera the first notable female GM?> The first woman GM was Nona Gaprindashvili in 1978. But Vera was at least IM strength. |
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| Jan-25-08 | | FHBradley: The biographical detail about the Vera Menchik club is misleading in that it was Becker who became the first member of the club. During the Carlsbad tournament of 1929, Becker apparently expressed some doubts about whether it was appropriate that Vera Menchik should have received an invitation, adding that everyone (meaning, of course, every man) who would manage to lose a game against her should be elected to the Menchik club. The next day Becker lost his game to Menchik. During the dinner, he was unanimously elected the first member of the newly founded club. So it one calls it a quip by Becker, one had better add he was its first victim. |
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| Feb-16-08 | | blackburne: Vera Menchik club, with all members, in the link (in spanish): http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/11%2... --- |
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Feb-16-08
 | | Honza Cervenka: Here is one of Vera's finest: Sultan Khan vs Menchik, 1931 |
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Feb-16-08
 | | eternaloptimist: I think it is worthy of note that she had a winning record against Max Euwe: 2 wins, 2 draws & only 1 loss to him! She was definitely a strong player. |
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| Feb-17-08 | | brankat: A great predecessor of our very own <Open Defence>, <Robin01> and <jessicafischerqueen>> :-) |
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| Apr-18-08 | | percyblakeney: In the four World Championship tournaments between 1931 and 1937 Menchik scored +43 -0 =0. |
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| Apr-18-08 | | Cibator: <Rocafella>, <Knight13>: Her death was actually caused by a V1 flying bomb - Germany was almost incapable of conventional air raids by 1944. There was little point in trying to shelter from "doodlebugs" when they could appear at any time and any place within range of the launch sites. So if one of them had your name on it .... |
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