Hey Genius; tramps?? you would know this how?? Be careful; tramps are people too ya know!
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The British Chess Magazine in February 1926 reported about the First Girls' Open Championship (under 20) in London, won by Vera Menchik, just 20 years of age.
In the article it says : " An amusing incident marked the opening ceremony. On presenting themselves for the first round on January 12th, the girls found no less than twenty-three press photographers in the room, and eight others came later in the day ! It would indeed have been poetic justice if one of the girls had insisted on taking a picture of the photographers."
In January 1931 the British Chess Magazine reported about the death of Mrs Fagan, a distinguished member of the Ladies' Chess Club. I quote :
"One of her early achievements was to play and win a tournament in India, in which twelve men took part. There was much opposition to the suggestion that Mrs Fagan should play in that tournament because the membership of the club was confined to men. However, eventually she was admitted to the tournament on condition that her games were played elsewhere than at the club. She won all her games..."
Feb 16, 2014
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Thanks RomyGer. Those are great photos of the 1926 tournament participants and partly what this thread was intended to be about.
Mrs. Fagan's mother was Italian and her father was American living in India. She had lived in Bombay where she met and married an Irishman, an officer an the Bombay Lancers. It the tournament you mentioned, Mrs. Faga was disqualified for being a women in an all-male event, even after winning all her games. She had to appeal to get the disqualification overturned. Later she moved to London and became an British citizen.
BulgarianMachine wrote:
but who made the sandwiches for the players in that tournament?
The men did.
pelly13 wrote:
For most men , there is nothing so frightning as an intelligent woman.
I don't think that's the case for most men, certainly a high % but not most. I find intellegent women very appealing. Oh wait, am I not supposed to mention that? I lose track of what's acceptable or offensive, sorry if I crossed the line.
Yeah... I've learned to know my place. I'm ok with it, grown to accept it. Sighhhhhh............
Edit: sorry for the mispelling above. A woman would've had sense to use spell check, not me though. Just a dumb guy I suppose, it's my cross to bear.
Further to posts 38 and 40 a photograph of Mrs Fagan !
I was perusing some old newspapers and came across a couple clipping fron 1897 concerning the Ladies' Congress (the first women's international tournament). Although I'd written about this and most of the participants, I though these gave a little most insight and wanted to share them in case anyone else is interested in this sort of thing. Note: the photo in the first article is the same one as in the article but from a different source since the one in the article was hard to see.)
see also Ladies' Entry into the Chess World.
Senorina Fagan.
Little Mother, Part I
Little Mother, Part II
Madame Ludovici of Wiesbaden
Those Photo's are a long way from the Mini Skirted Tramps doing the Circuit these days!
Mini skirted tramps? In the Virgin Islands?
That can't be right.