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Who won the first Women's World Chess Championship?

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thanvisri
Apr 19, 2021
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Vera Menchik
 
The first championships were all-play-all tournaments held concurrently with Chess Olympiads. From 1927 to 1939, one player dominated them all: British-Czechoslovak-Russian Vera Menchik. She won the first Women's World Championship and successfully defended her title six times in every tournament held during her life.
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Bumvinnik
Apr 19, 2021
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She died in a bombing raid during world war 2 😔

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SpacePodz
Apr 19, 2021
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#3
Really? What a sad way to go 😞
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Bumvinnik
Apr 19, 2021
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Ya...her and some family members died from a German bomb during world war 2.

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Snookslayer
Apr 19, 2021
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Bumvinnik wrote:

She died in a bombing raid during world war 2 😔

She checked to see if an attack was coming, but there was no way to deflect it. So she got pinned and skewered.