Agnes Stevenson

Agnes Stevenson

Agnes Lawson-Stevenson (died 20 August 1935) [citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
pages=407–8] was a British chess master. She was four-time British Ladies' Champion (1920, 1925, 1926, 1930), and married to Rufus Stevenson, editor of the "British Chess Magazine".

She was thrice the Women's World Championship Challenger. She tied for 9-11th at London 1927, took 5th at Hamburg 1930, and took 3rd at Prague 1931. [ [http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/11%20Ajedrez%20Femenino/Palmares/Cto_Mundo.htm Campeonato Mundo femenino ] ] On the way to play in the 1935 Women's World Championship, she left the aircraft in Poznań to complete a passport check. She returned to the aircraft from the front and ran into the propellor and was killed. [ [http://www.bcmchess.co.uk/britbase/arch30.htm Britbase Chess Archive] ]

Her husband was re-married in 1937 to Women's World Chess Champion, Vera Menchik, who was herself tragically killed just a few years later.

References

Further reading

*citation
periodical=British Chess Magazine
volume=1935 | pages=393, 454–455


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Agnes Moorehead — Données clés Nom de naissance Agnes Robertson Moorehead Su …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Liste der Britischen Meister im Schach — British Chess Championship, Torquay 2009 Liste der Britischen Meister im Schach seit 1904: Jahr Ort Herren Damen 1904 Hastings William Ewart Napier Kate …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Langstaff — This interesting surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is from an occupational name for a tipstaff (court official charged with keeping order), or a beadle (a minor church official who keeps order), who usually carried a long staff as a badge of… …   Surnames reference

  • Longstaff — This interesting surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is from an occupational name for a tipstaff (court official charged with keeping order), or a beadle (a minor church official who keeps order), who usually carried a long staff as a badge of… …   Surnames reference

  • Longstaffe — This interesting surname is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is from an occupational name for a tipstaff (court official charged with keeping order), or a beadle (a minor church official who keeps order), who usually carried a long staff as a badge of… …   Surnames reference

  • List of chess players — This list of chess players depicts men and women who are primarily known as chess players and have an article on the English Wikipedia. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z …   Wikipedia

  • Index of chess articles — Contents 1 Books 2 General articles 2.1 0–9 2.2 A …   Wikipedia

  • performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …   Universalium

  • Jeffrey Golladay — Infobox Artist name = Jeffrey Golladay imagesize = caption = birthname = Jeffrey Golladay birthdate = January, 1979 location = Richmond, Virginia deathdate = deathplace = nationality = American field = Ballet training = Ballet Dallas, Houston… …   Wikipedia

  • Jane Eyre (1944 film) — Infobox Film name = Jane Eyre caption = Original film poster director = Robert Stevenson producer = William Goetz Kenneth Macgowan Orson Welles (uncredited) writer = John Houseman Aldous Huxley Henry Koster Robert Stevenson Charlotte Brontë… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”