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Spam Scone wrote:
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> Nick wrote:
>
> Perhaps this is not as clear-cut as we had hoped. Here's something
> allegedly from the BCM that I found online:
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> 'A V1 rocket fell on a house in Gauden Road, Clapham, London, that
was[vbcol=seagreen]
> the residence of Russian-born Vera Menchik, her younger sister and
> their mother. The trio were sheltering in the cellar, as they usually
> did during the Nazi air raids on London. The house was completely
> destroyed. The air-raid shelter in the garden was all that was left.'
> (BCM tribute, August 1994)
>
> While it appears Mr. Stevenson had some connection to Kent, it's not
> clear from online sources that Mrs. Stevenson died there. Does anyone
> have access to the BCM and CHESS from 1944, or the London or Kent
> newspapers? Let's resolve this matter.
>
>
>
Very informative. Thanks!
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| Jeremy Spinrad 2005-02-21, 5:49 pm |
| Here is the London Times obituary of June 30, 1944.
Mrs Vera Stevenson, better known as Vera Menchik, woman chess champion of the
world, has been killed by enemy action in southern England, with her mother, Mrs.
Menchik, and her sister, Mrs. Olga Rubery, also a well known chess player.
"Mrs. Stevenson, who was 38 years of age, was the daughter of an English mother
and a Czechoslovak father. She learnt chess when a girl in Russia, which she left
in 1923. Going to live at Hastings, she joined the Hastings Chess Club and began
to take the game seriously. By 1927 she became the world's woman champion, and
she remained unbeaten up to her death. In 1937 she was married to Mr. R.H.
Stevenson, secretary of the British Chess Federation; he died last year."
Jerry Spinrad
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