Olga Menchik

Olga Menchik

Olga Menchik (Menčíková, Menčik) Rubery (2 May 1907, Moscow – 26 June 1944, Clapham, London) was a Czech-British female chess master.

Born in Moscow to a Czech father and a British mother, she was younger sister to Vera Menchik, the Women's World Chess Champion. They all moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship, and Olga took second place.[1]

She took fourth place in the fifth Women's World Chess Championship at Warsaw 1935,[2] and tied for 17–20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937[3] (Vera Menchik won both events).

In 1938 she married a British man, Clifford Glanville Rubery.[4] Olga, aged 37,[4] her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German V-1 flying bomb hit her home at 47 Gauden Road, Clapham, south London, in 1944.[5][4]

  1. ^ "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Archived from the original on 28 October 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
  2. ^ GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935 Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ ultim8games.com Archived 14 May 2007 at archive.today
  4. ^ a b c [1] CWGC Casualty Record, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough.
  5. ^ Girls in Chess, way back "Then"! Archived 13 February 2005 at the Wayback Machine