1944 in chess

List of years in chess (table)

Events in chess in 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
  • Wilhelm Orbach, German master, died in Auschwitz.
  • Jorgen Moeller, Danish master, died in Denmark. Nordic Chess Champion (1899 and 1901), the Moeller Attack in the Giuoco Piano and the Moeller Defense in the Ruy Lopez.
  • Nikoly Rudnev, Ukrainian master, died probably in Uzbekistan.
  • 3 February – Albert Hodges, 1894 US Chess Champion
  • ca. 9 February Dawid Daniuszewski, Polish master, died in the Lodz Ghetto.
  • ca. 9 February Salomon Szapiro, Polish master, died in the Lodz Ghetto.
  • 12 April – Roberto Grau died in Buenos Aires. South American and Argentine Champion.
  • 3 June – Adolf Zinkl, Austrian master, died in Vienna.
  • 27 June – Vera Menchik, the 1st Women's World Chess Champion, died in a German bombing raid, London, England.
  • 27 June – Olga Menchik, the younger sister of Vera, died in a German bombing raid, London, England.
  • 2 November – Karol Irzykowski, Polish master, died in Żyrardów.
  • 9 November – Frank James Marshall, American grandmaster, died in Jersey City, USA.
  • 29 December – Endre Steiner, Hungarian master, died in a Nazi concentration camp.
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References
  1. "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Archived from the original on 2009-10-21.
  2. "Title Unknown". Archived from the original on 2009-10-20.
  3. Chess Notes 4034. The code-breakers by Edward Winter; based on a report from CHESS, February 1945, p. 73.
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