Olga Menchik

{{Short description|Czech-British chess player (1908–1944)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} thumb|Olga Menchik '''Olga Menchik (Menčíková, Menčik) Rubery''' (2 May 1907, 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, the Women's World Chess Champion. The girls and their mother moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship, and Olga took second place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/menchik.htm |title=Vera Menchik by Bill Wall |access-date=2013-07-10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028034414/http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/menchik.htm |archive-date=28 October 2009 }}</ref>

She took fourth place in the fifth Women's World Chess Championship at Warsaw 1935,<ref>[http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables6.htm GER-ch 3rd Aachen 1935] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927215828/http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables6.htm |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref> and tied for 17–20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937<ref>[http://www.ultim8games.com/enews/index.php?type_id=1&article_id=214&view=3 ultim8games.com] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20070514192627/http://www.ultim8games.com/enews/index.php?type_id=1&article_id=214&view=3 |date=14 May 2007 }}</ref> (Vera Menchik won both events).

In 1938 she married a British man, Clifford Glanville Rubery.<ref name=cwgc>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3141360/RUBERY,%20OLGA%20MECHIKOVA] CWGC Casualty Record, Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough. Retrieved 19 June 2013.</ref> Olga, aged 37,<ref name=cwgc /> her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German V-1 flying bomb hit their home at 47 Gauden Road, Clapham, south London, in 1944.<ref>[http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBChess/then.html Girls in Chess, way back "Then"!] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050213165136/http://www.angelfire.com/games/SBChess/then.html |date=13 February 2005 }}</ref><ref name=cwgc />

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