Edith Michell

thumb {{Short description|English chess player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Use British English|date=July 2012}} '''Edith Mary Ann Michell''' (née Tapsell) (26<ref>1939 UK Census, Kingston-upon-Thames</ref> July 1872 in Croydon, Surrey – 18 October 1951 in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex)<ref>Birth, Marriages & Deaths, probate and burial records, e.g. http://www2.kingston.gov.uk/GraveRecords/jpgs/KingstonCemetery/BurialRegister12_1944-1954/Jpeg/pge00326.jpg {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309032326/http://www2.kingston.gov.uk/GraveRecords/jpgs/KingstonCemetery/BurialRegister12_1944-1954/Jpeg/pge00326.jpg |date=9 March 2013 }}</ref> was an English female chess master.

At the beginning of her career, she twice won Redhill Chess Club championships in 1906 and 1909.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://chess.consolidata.co.uk/redhillchess/redtrophy.htm |title=Championship |access-date=10 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107052550/http://chess.consolidata.co.uk/redhillchess/redtrophy.htm |archive-date=7 January 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> More than two decades later, she became the three times winner of the British Women's Chess Championship in 1931 (jointly), 1932, and 1935.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://batgirl.atspace.com/Sunnucks.html |title=Patricia Anne Sunnucks |access-date=10 March 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060613214315/http://batgirl.atspace.com/Sunnucks.html |archive-date=13 June 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

She took 4th at Meran 1924 (unofficial European women's championship, Helene Cotton and Edith Holloway won).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter31.html|title=Chess Notes by Edward Winter|accessdate=8 April 2016}}</ref> She tied for 4-5th at London 1927 (the 1st Women's World Chess Championship) and took 4th at Folkestone 1933 (the 4th Women's World Chess Championship), both won by Vera Menchik.<ref>{{cite book | author=Gawlikowski, Stanisław | title=''Olimpiady szachowe 1924-1974'' | publisher=Wyd. Sport i Turystyka, Warszawa | year=1978 | pages=22, 63 (Polish edition) }}</ref>

She was the wife of Reginald Pryce Michell.

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