Chess Trivia: Can you recognize this talented player?
Who is the player on the left?
Hello Everyone!
It's chess trivia time again. Can you recognize the player on the left?
Here are some hints: This player was taught by
Siegbert Tarrasch and though, never became world champion, was as good as any!
A famous quote: "Against Menchik, when she was world champion, I had a won game, but I found the three stupidest moves you could think of and lost."—New Yorker, September 19, 1964.
From Alexandra Kosteniuk's
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Labels: Trivia
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 11:30 AM
2 Comments:
At July 31, 2010 at 2:21 PM ,
R7-Android Super 17 said...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonja_Graf
Sorry my Queen, the hint was way too obvious.
besides the picture has the name sonja.jpg
At July 31, 2010 at 4:53 PM ,
Anonymous said...
Sonja Graf
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