Who was Vera Menchik's mother?
English
Russian
Czech
German
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English was Vera Menchik's mother's nationality. Vera Menchik was a British chess player who won the Women's World Chess Championship seven times. She was born in Russia but moved to England with her family when she was a child. Her mother was an English woman, and her father was a Czech chess player. Menchik learned to play chess from her father and quickly became one of the world's top players.
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