1944 in chess

The below is a list of events in chess in the year 1944.

Chess events in brief

  • 27 June 1944 – Vera Manchik-Stevenson, first official Women's World Chess Champion (since 1927), represented Russia (1927), Czechoslovakia (1930–37), and England (1939), who was widowed the previous year, still holding the title, her younger sister, Olga Menchik-Rubery, and their mother were killed in a V-1 rocket bombing raid which destroyed their home at 47 Gauden Road in the Clapham area of South London. According to some sources, Kent was the place of their death.[1][2]

Tournaments

Matches

Births

Deaths

References

  1. "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Archived from the original on 2009-10-21.
  2. "Title Unknown". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19.
  3. Chess Notes 4034. The code-breakers by Edward Winter; based on a report from CHESS, February 1945, p. 73.
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