| Spam Scone 2005-02-21, 3:48 am |
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Nick wrote:
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> Spam Scone wrote:
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> That ChessBase column was written by John Henderson
> (who also writes a chess column for 'The Scotsman').
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/arch30.htm
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> 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.
>
>
> 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.
So much of what passes for chess history are simply urban legends that
get circulated from book to book. John Henderson would not be the first
to fall into that practice.
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> 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.
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