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| Spam Scone wrote:
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> Nick wrote:
That ChessBase column was written by John Henderson
(who also writes a chess column for 'The Scotsman').
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> 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 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)
Thanks to Neil Brennen for the new information.
I had not been aware that there was any dispute
about the place of Vera Menchik's death.
quote:
> While it appears Mr. Stevenson had some connection to Kent,
http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/arch30.htm
Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson (1878-1943) 'was Kent
County Champion in 1919'. 'Stevenson married Vera Menchik
in 1937, at which time he was the Kent County Hon. Sec,
having previously been the match captain. He later became
the BCF Hon. Sec.'
RHS Stevenson died before his wife, Vera Menchik, did.
I suppose that Mrs Stevenson would have inherited her
late husband's property (probably including a house)
in Kent.
quote:
> it's not clear from online sources that Mrs. Stevenson
> died there.
In the ChessBase column that I cited earlier, John Henderson
wrote: "...before her (Vera Menchik's) untimely death in 1944,
when a German V-1 rocket *hit her Kent house*; also killing
in the process her sister, Olga ... and their mother."
So it's clear enough that John Henderson places Vera
Menchik's death in Kent. But it's possible that John
Henderson may have been misinformed.
quote:
> Does anyone have access to the BCM and CHESS
> from 1944, or the London or Kent newspapers?
> Let's resolve this matter.
As far as I can tell, there are more British readers
of RGCM than of RGCP, so perhaps this question should
also be cross-posted to rec.games.chess.misc.
--Nick
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