Olga Menchik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Olga Menchik

czech-British chess player

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1908

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1944

Profession: chess player

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Olga Menchik (Mencíková, Mencik) Rubery (1908, Moscow – 26 June 1944, Clapham, London) was a Czech–British female chess master. Born in Moscow to a Czech father and a British mother, she was younger sister to Vera Menchik.
They all moved to England in 1921.
In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship, and Olga took second place.She took fourth place in the fifth Women's World Chess Championship at Warsaw 1935, and tied for 17-20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937 (Vera Menchik won both events). She married a British man, Clifford Granville Rubery.
Olga, aged 37, her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German V-1 flying bomb hit her home at 47 Gauden Road, Clapham, south London, in 1944.