Agnes Stevenson
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Agnes Lawson-Stevenson (died 20 August 1935)[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]
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.
[edit] References
- ^ Gaige, Jeremy (1987), Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography, McFarland, pp. 407–8, ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- ^ Campeonato Mundo femenino
- ^ Britbase Chess Archive
[edit] Further reading
- British Chess Magazine 1935: 393, 454–455
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