Vera Menchik - International Tournament Results

International Tournament Results

Starting in 1929, she participated in a number of Hastings Congress tournaments.

Here is a list of her results in Hastings, year by year;

• Hastings 1929, 9th place out of 10 players, (+2 =3 -4)
• Hastings 1931, tied for 5th-8th places out of 10 players, (+3 =2 -4)
• Hastings 1932, tied for 6th-8th places out of 10 players, (+2 =3 -4)
• Hastings 1933, 8th place out of 10 players, (+2 =1 -6)
• Hastings 1934, 8th place out of 10 players, (+1 =4 -4)
• Hastings 1936, tied for 9th-10th places out of 10 players, (+0 =5 -4)

The biggest and strongest tournament Menchik played in was the Moscow tournament of 1935, which featured World Champions Botvinnik, Capablanca, and Lasker, as well as a host of elite players and future GMs like Flohr, Ragozin, Spielmann, Levenfish, Lilenthal, etc. Here, Menchik finished in last place, 20th out of 20 competitors, with a score of (+0 =3 -16).

Other major international tournaments include Karlsbad in 1929, where she finished last, 22nd out of 22 players, with a score of (+2 =2 -17), and Lodz in 1938, where she finished 15th out of 16, with a score of (+1 =5 -9).

Menchik's best results at international tournaments came at Ramsgate 1929. This was a Scheveningen system match, with 7 players from one team competing against 7 from another. Menchik finished with a perfect score of (+3 =4 -0). In 1934 she finished in 3rd place out of 9 players at Maribor, behind Lajos Steiner and Vasja Pirc, but ahead of the likes of Rudolph Spielmann and Milan Vidmar, with a score of (+3 =4 -1). In 1942 she won a match against Jacques Mieses (+4 =5 -1). It should, however, be noted that Mieses was 77 years old at the time, and no longer an active tournament participant.