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This article is inaccurate in relation to where she lived/died. She lived in
Gauden Road Clapham London SW4, which was bombed during one of the the first V1 missile attacks on 26th June 1944 (during World War II). Sources: BCM Magazine Bound Edition (June/July 1944). Vera is listed in the obituaries, which was extracted from the
West London Chess Club Gazette (she played for the club at that time). The "buzz bomb" hit her home, her mother and sister Olga (also a good chess player) were killed as well. Ironically, the nearby bomb shelter was untouched.
It must be reminded, this was no usual air attack with possibility and time to run to the shelter after the alarms sounded. V1 were ballistic rockets with supersonic speed. No forewarning at all, just a big explosion all of a sudden. So they didnt faulted in any way not being in the shelter when the missile struck down./StefanZ 78.69.228.145 ( talk) 07:55, 27 February 2015 (UTC)StefanZ
Ramsgate 1929 was a Schevevingen match (7 from one team played 7 from another) [1]. Still a very impressive result for her, but the way the article dsecribes it isn't quite accurate. Peter Ballard ( talk) 05:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
1. Vera Menchik - 1927 - 1950
Born in Moscow of Czechoslavakian-British extraction, Vera Menchik was easily the strongest female player of her time, having at one time or other beaten most of the strongest players in the world (the defeated became members of the "Vera Menchik Club"). In 1927 she won the first Women's World Championship tournament with a score of 10.5 out of 11. She defended her title with ease in Hamburg 1930, Prague 1931, Folkestone 1933, Warsaw 1935, Stockholm 1937 and Buenos Aires 1939. She died as an undefeated champion during Nazi raids over London, during war, CHAMPIONSHIP KEPT WITH DEATH!
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Article has a problem with them, including the second paragraph of the lead. ( t · c) buidhe 06:06, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Currently in the article we have this line: "The inaugural GM members were: Max Euwe (+2–1=1), Jacques Mieses (+5–3=6), Samuel Reshevsky (+1–1=0), and Friedrich Sämisch (+1–0=0), where Menchik's records against each player are given in parentheses." However, there are two games in Chessgames.com with Euwe losing to Menchik - [2] and [3]. Did Euwe only lose one game? Banedon ( talk) 10:58, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Recently the infobox photo was changed, then changed back. The two photos are identified by Menchik's biographer, Tanner, as "the two most well-known portraits of Menchik", and I would recommend that they both be used in the article, though one or the other must be chosen for the infobox. Bruce leverett ( talk) 20:52, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
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I have been scratching my head over the expression "master level" (with or without hyphen). It is vague and subject to multiple interpretations, but sometimes there is nothing better, especially when we are describing players in that era, when there were no FIDE titles and no widely applied rating systems. When Tanner quotes the BCM saying that Scarborough 1928 was Menchik's "first appearance in the ranks of the masters", you are surely correct to quote or closely paraphrase him -- Wikipedia is supposed to depend on its sources. But in the third paragraph of the article, when you say "She was the only woman competing at the master level", this is both understating and overstating her achievement. Repeat invitations to the Hastings Premier in the 1930's, let alone Carlsbad 1929 or Moscow 1935, are beyond what just any "master" could have done. On the other hand, Graf played in what might be called "master" events, so Menchik wasn't the only one.
I suspect that when you write "open tournament", either in the lead paragraphs or later in the article, you mean a tournament in which both men and women can play. But that is not the only definition, or the most common definition, for that phrase. I was startled to see Ramsgate 1929 described as an "open tournament", when in fact it was invitational, which in my own parlance is the opposite of "open". You need either to explicitly clarify this, or to somehow rewrite to avoid using "open tournament". Tanner at some point uses "mixed-gender tournaments" -- I am not entirely happy with that formulation, but at least it's unambiguous.
The sentence about the Sonja Graf match in the second of the lead paragraphs has several problems:
"When Menchik was already a five-time WWC ..." -- you should already have given the dates for the first five WWC tournaments.
"... first-ever Women's World Championship match" -- it is very odd to use "first-ever" here, though it is technically correct. After Graf played her WWC match with Menchik, the WWC immediately went back to a tournament format, and stayed that way until the early 1950's. I would recommend just saying, "she played and won a WWC match in 1937 against Sonja Graf ..."
"the consensus second-best female player of her era" -- how about "the other leading female player of her era" or perhaps "the other female chess professional of her era". "Consensus" is an odd word to use in this context -- adjectives like "second-best" are usually derived from tournament standings, not from consensus, and Graf didn't finish second until 1939.
Discussion of Ramsgate 1929: "a ½ point behind" -> "a half point behind".
Second paragraph of the section about 1930-32: Please straighten out the references to the two Hastings tournaments to be in chronological order. The jumping back and forth between the 1930-31 tournament and the 1931-32 tournament is very confusing.
Tanner (p. 94) considers the 1931 BCF Congress Major Open to be one of Menchik's best results. Why not quote or paraphrase this opinion, and also, perhaps, set the description of that tournament into a separate paragraph, to highlight it.
In that section, this sentence: "The Major section was held in conjunction with the national championship for high-level international players" needs to be reorganized, so that "for high-level international players" does not appear to modify "the national championship".
In the discussion of Menchik's matches with Graf, the word "official" is used repeatedly, denoting (I assume) a match for the WWC, whereas "unofficial" denotes a match that isn't for the WWC. This usage is copied from the article by Negele. But I would recommend that you not use "official" this way, as it is not self-explanatory. On the other hand, it is a good idea to emphasize that the 1934 match was not for the WWC, as apparently there has been some confusion on this point (one can still find sources that say it was for the WWC).
Give the locations of the two Czechoslovak championships. The Podebrady tournament is still well-known as it was large and strong. So do not try to cover both tournaments in a single sentence. Also give the location of the B.C.F. Congress 1935. Chess literature generally identifies tournaments by their location and year, e.g. Yarmouth 1935, even if they are also identified by particular national championships or other championships.
Tanner mentions (p. 295) that Mieses won a match from Gerald Abrahams at the age of 81 (that would have been in 1946). Mentioning this might be a good way of giving an idea of Mieses' strength at the time of his match with Menchik. When Tanner says that Mieses had been one of the top 10 players in the world, he gives an approximate year (1900), and you should too, as this is an important part of the assessment. On the other hand, mentioning that he later received the GM title doesn't add anything to the "top 10 in the world" assessment.
Vera Menchik Club: "Max Euwe and George Thomas, both of whom had below-average records against Menchik by their standards, ..." -- "below-average" is not the right word. I would say that they both had negative lifetime scores (in tournament games) against Menchik. One could also say "lifetime minus scores". You may find another phrase that you prefer.
I like your choice of Notable Games, and your treatment of them is correct and correctly sourced. May I suggest that you use another method, rather than quotation marks plus parentheses, to set off the annotations from the score. One possibility is using boldface for the score, plain type for the annotations, as in George H. D. Gossip and Gisela Kahn Gresser.
Personal Life section, Families subsection -- "Rufus worked as a pharmacist ..." -- use "Rufus Stevenson" here, it strikes me as too informal or personal to just use the given name.
The treatment of her notable accomplishments is good, but slightly disorganized. You mention her eight WWC wins in the first paragraph, but you only give two dates for them in the second paragraph, 1927 and 1937. I suggest that the two sentences about the WWC in the first paragraph be shortened to one, something like "She was the first Women's World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1927 until 1944." The part about "longest-reigning" and the comparison with Lasker do not belong in the first paragraph, or perhaps even in any of the lead paragraphs. The first paragraph of the article should not be a dry recitation of longevity statistics, nor a comparison with other notable chess players (whom the reader may not otherwise know about), but a positive and succinct description of the things she was, and is, notable for. It would be a good idea to summarize her standing against men in the first paragraph; for instance, something like "She was the first woman to compete successfully in international tournaments at master level", although in the comments above, I complain about the phrase "master level". So instead, maybe something like, "She held her own against the leading British players of the day, and competed successfully in international tournaments at the highest levels." Well, this may be rather stilted, you can perhaps do better.
I do not know if there is a guideline for this, but I recommend that the "Death" and "Personal Life" sections come before the "Playing Style" and "Legacy" sections; that is what I have seen in other Wiki chess biographies.
The first paragraph of the "Personal Life" section, which discusses how she made a living from chess, seems out of place here -- her career isn't her personal life, right? But I do not know of other Wikipedia chess biographies that discuss how the subject made his/her living from chess, so I can't suggest a better place to put it.
It is a stretch to call Maroczy a "past contender for the World Championship". He negotiated for a match with Lasker, but it never came off.
The use of inline citations is impeccable. When you cite two separate pages of Tanner, you can combine them in one footnote. For instance, in discussing the London Girls' Championships, you cite Tanner p. 12 and Tanner pp. 38-39. You could just cite Tanner pp. 12, 38-39.
Whereas Tanner says that Menchik's prize of 8 pounds at Stratford 1925 was worth $543 in 2016 dollars, the article says that it was worth about 490 in 2022 pounds. I think that Wikipedia has templates that can be used to help with currency conversion to present-day approximate values. I will try to look this up, could you do so too?
The Hastings 1927-1928 Major Open A was not the "next edition" of the Hastings 1926-1927 Major Reserves, it was a higher level section (which is why she didn't do as well). I would assume she qualified for the Major Open by winning the previous Major Reserves (but I haven't looked that up).
Here's an interesting tidbit. Ludwig Rellstab, who lost a game to Menchik in the 1927-1928 Hastings Major Open A, was missed by Tanner in his table of Appendix 7. It's important because he was, or later became, quite a strong player. He was German champion in 1942, was awarded the IM title in 1950, and played in some Olympiads in the 1950's, according to his Wiki biography. OK, this is not directly relevant to your article, but I just had to mention it, since I just noticed it.
The discussion of Scarborough 1928 should cite Tanner, p. 43 (or perhaps pp. 43-47).
The claim that Carlsbad 1929 was "was the strongest chess tournament since the First World War" is extravagant. I realize that it is almost a direct quote from Tanner. But having a source doesn't give us license for MOS:PUFFERY. Readers will instantly compare Carlsbad with New York 1924, Moscow 1925, New York 1927, and likely several others.
"Sämisch was one of the inaugural players to receive the Grandmaster title.[30][31]" -- A couple of problems with this: (1) Sämisch's GM title was awarded 21 years later; if it is desirable to mention something that he did to indicate his strength, it should be something more nearly contemporary. (2) The two citations are to Tanner describing Paris 1929 and Barcelona 1929. So they belong on the previous sentence, not on the sentence about Sämisch. (And besides, those pages in Tanner don't mention Sämisch's GM title.)
Tanner, on page 13, says that Menchik won the Hastings C.C. championship with 11½-½, but on page 80 he gives a score of +13-0=1, that is, 13½-½.
The citation for the Britain vs. Holland match and Brighton 1938 mistakenly gives Tanner pp. 162-170; it should be Tanner pp. 196-197. It would be reasonable to have separate citations for these two events.
The discussion leading to the conclusion that Menchik was "generally recognized as an IM-strength level player" is well done. It is correctly supported by citation of Tanner, and leaves off all the strange stuff about ratings retrospectively calculated by Elo, Sonas, etc. I appreciate how well Tanner himself has supported this retrospective evaluation, about which there is always bound to be skepticism, and how much work he put into compiling her scores against other players.
Women's chess section: Menchik did not reach the Premier section of Hastings in 1928; she reached the Premier Reserve section. She reached the Premier section in the 1929-30 event.
"Part of the reason Menchik was invited to the Moscow tournament was the hope that her appearance in the event would help bolster Soviet women's chess" -- this is nearly an exact duplicate of a sentence in the section about 1933-37.
Tanner's claim that Bikova's book "is something of a Soviet propaganda piece of the times" is not particularly relevant, and you don't need to cite it or quote it.
Footnote 105, a citation of the World Chess Hall of Fame website that doesn't link directly to Menchik, looks unnecessary, since footnote 103 links directly to Menchik's entry.
Personal Life section, Families subsection: Tanner (p. 235) says that the pairing system used for the WWC 1937 tournament was the "Monrad" system, not the Swiss system.
In the discussion of Maribor, it is not good practice to state the past and future achievements of Menchik's leading opponents as if they were credentials. Instead, Tanner just says "five strong internationally recognized masters." You don't need to quote this, but it is an example of the right way of giving credit to the strength of her opponents. This isn't an article about Pirc, Steiner, Rejfíř, Asztalos, Vidmar Jr., and Spielmann, it's an article about Menchik. Readers who want to know more about those six guys can follow the Wikilinks.
By the way, why did Tanner say "five"? He must have been including Stupan or Drezga. Oddly enough, I think he meant Drezga, although Drezga had a worse tournament; there is a Wiki article about him, which says that he had some good results while playing in France in the 1920's.
The photo of Euwe in the section about the Vera Menchik club is poorly chosen, because it includes an irrelevant person, who is distracting. Moreover, the person is unidentified in the caption, and even the information accompanying the image doesn't positively identify her, though it suggests she might be his daughter. Find a more suitable photo of Euwe.
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This article is inaccurate in relation to where she lived/died. She lived in
Gauden Road Clapham London SW4, which was bombed during one of the the first V1 missile attacks on 26th June 1944 (during World War II). Sources: BCM Magazine Bound Edition (June/July 1944). Vera is listed in the obituaries, which was extracted from the
West London Chess Club Gazette (she played for the club at that time). The "buzz bomb" hit her home, her mother and sister Olga (also a good chess player) were killed as well. Ironically, the nearby bomb shelter was untouched.
It must be reminded, this was no usual air attack with possibility and time to run to the shelter after the alarms sounded. V1 were ballistic rockets with supersonic speed. No forewarning at all, just a big explosion all of a sudden. So they didnt faulted in any way not being in the shelter when the missile struck down./StefanZ 78.69.228.145 ( talk) 07:55, 27 February 2015 (UTC)StefanZ
Ramsgate 1929 was a Schevevingen match (7 from one team played 7 from another) [1]. Still a very impressive result for her, but the way the article dsecribes it isn't quite accurate. Peter Ballard ( talk) 05:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
1. Vera Menchik - 1927 - 1950
Born in Moscow of Czechoslavakian-British extraction, Vera Menchik was easily the strongest female player of her time, having at one time or other beaten most of the strongest players in the world (the defeated became members of the "Vera Menchik Club"). In 1927 she won the first Women's World Championship tournament with a score of 10.5 out of 11. She defended her title with ease in Hamburg 1930, Prague 1931, Folkestone 1933, Warsaw 1935, Stockholm 1937 and Buenos Aires 1939. She died as an undefeated champion during Nazi raids over London, during war, CHAMPIONSHIP KEPT WITH DEATH!
There's a picture of Vera Menchik avaliable at commons here. OTAVIO1981 ( talk) 20:56, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
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Article has a problem with them, including the second paragraph of the lead. ( t · c) buidhe 06:06, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
Currently in the article we have this line: "The inaugural GM members were: Max Euwe (+2–1=1), Jacques Mieses (+5–3=6), Samuel Reshevsky (+1–1=0), and Friedrich Sämisch (+1–0=0), where Menchik's records against each player are given in parentheses." However, there are two games in Chessgames.com with Euwe losing to Menchik - [2] and [3]. Did Euwe only lose one game? Banedon ( talk) 10:58, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
Recently the infobox photo was changed, then changed back. The two photos are identified by Menchik's biographer, Tanner, as "the two most well-known portraits of Menchik", and I would recommend that they both be used in the article, though one or the other must be chosen for the infobox. Bruce leverett ( talk) 20:52, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
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I have been scratching my head over the expression "master level" (with or without hyphen). It is vague and subject to multiple interpretations, but sometimes there is nothing better, especially when we are describing players in that era, when there were no FIDE titles and no widely applied rating systems. When Tanner quotes the BCM saying that Scarborough 1928 was Menchik's "first appearance in the ranks of the masters", you are surely correct to quote or closely paraphrase him -- Wikipedia is supposed to depend on its sources. But in the third paragraph of the article, when you say "She was the only woman competing at the master level", this is both understating and overstating her achievement. Repeat invitations to the Hastings Premier in the 1930's, let alone Carlsbad 1929 or Moscow 1935, are beyond what just any "master" could have done. On the other hand, Graf played in what might be called "master" events, so Menchik wasn't the only one.
I suspect that when you write "open tournament", either in the lead paragraphs or later in the article, you mean a tournament in which both men and women can play. But that is not the only definition, or the most common definition, for that phrase. I was startled to see Ramsgate 1929 described as an "open tournament", when in fact it was invitational, which in my own parlance is the opposite of "open". You need either to explicitly clarify this, or to somehow rewrite to avoid using "open tournament". Tanner at some point uses "mixed-gender tournaments" -- I am not entirely happy with that formulation, but at least it's unambiguous.
The sentence about the Sonja Graf match in the second of the lead paragraphs has several problems:
"When Menchik was already a five-time WWC ..." -- you should already have given the dates for the first five WWC tournaments.
"... first-ever Women's World Championship match" -- it is very odd to use "first-ever" here, though it is technically correct. After Graf played her WWC match with Menchik, the WWC immediately went back to a tournament format, and stayed that way until the early 1950's. I would recommend just saying, "she played and won a WWC match in 1937 against Sonja Graf ..."
"the consensus second-best female player of her era" -- how about "the other leading female player of her era" or perhaps "the other female chess professional of her era". "Consensus" is an odd word to use in this context -- adjectives like "second-best" are usually derived from tournament standings, not from consensus, and Graf didn't finish second until 1939.
Discussion of Ramsgate 1929: "a ½ point behind" -> "a half point behind".
Second paragraph of the section about 1930-32: Please straighten out the references to the two Hastings tournaments to be in chronological order. The jumping back and forth between the 1930-31 tournament and the 1931-32 tournament is very confusing.
Tanner (p. 94) considers the 1931 BCF Congress Major Open to be one of Menchik's best results. Why not quote or paraphrase this opinion, and also, perhaps, set the description of that tournament into a separate paragraph, to highlight it.
In that section, this sentence: "The Major section was held in conjunction with the national championship for high-level international players" needs to be reorganized, so that "for high-level international players" does not appear to modify "the national championship".
In the discussion of Menchik's matches with Graf, the word "official" is used repeatedly, denoting (I assume) a match for the WWC, whereas "unofficial" denotes a match that isn't for the WWC. This usage is copied from the article by Negele. But I would recommend that you not use "official" this way, as it is not self-explanatory. On the other hand, it is a good idea to emphasize that the 1934 match was not for the WWC, as apparently there has been some confusion on this point (one can still find sources that say it was for the WWC).
Give the locations of the two Czechoslovak championships. The Podebrady tournament is still well-known as it was large and strong. So do not try to cover both tournaments in a single sentence. Also give the location of the B.C.F. Congress 1935. Chess literature generally identifies tournaments by their location and year, e.g. Yarmouth 1935, even if they are also identified by particular national championships or other championships.
Tanner mentions (p. 295) that Mieses won a match from Gerald Abrahams at the age of 81 (that would have been in 1946). Mentioning this might be a good way of giving an idea of Mieses' strength at the time of his match with Menchik. When Tanner says that Mieses had been one of the top 10 players in the world, he gives an approximate year (1900), and you should too, as this is an important part of the assessment. On the other hand, mentioning that he later received the GM title doesn't add anything to the "top 10 in the world" assessment.
Vera Menchik Club: "Max Euwe and George Thomas, both of whom had below-average records against Menchik by their standards, ..." -- "below-average" is not the right word. I would say that they both had negative lifetime scores (in tournament games) against Menchik. One could also say "lifetime minus scores". You may find another phrase that you prefer.
I like your choice of Notable Games, and your treatment of them is correct and correctly sourced. May I suggest that you use another method, rather than quotation marks plus parentheses, to set off the annotations from the score. One possibility is using boldface for the score, plain type for the annotations, as in George H. D. Gossip and Gisela Kahn Gresser.
Personal Life section, Families subsection -- "Rufus worked as a pharmacist ..." -- use "Rufus Stevenson" here, it strikes me as too informal or personal to just use the given name.
The treatment of her notable accomplishments is good, but slightly disorganized. You mention her eight WWC wins in the first paragraph, but you only give two dates for them in the second paragraph, 1927 and 1937. I suggest that the two sentences about the WWC in the first paragraph be shortened to one, something like "She was the first Women's World Chess Champion, holding the title from 1927 until 1944." The part about "longest-reigning" and the comparison with Lasker do not belong in the first paragraph, or perhaps even in any of the lead paragraphs. The first paragraph of the article should not be a dry recitation of longevity statistics, nor a comparison with other notable chess players (whom the reader may not otherwise know about), but a positive and succinct description of the things she was, and is, notable for. It would be a good idea to summarize her standing against men in the first paragraph; for instance, something like "She was the first woman to compete successfully in international tournaments at master level", although in the comments above, I complain about the phrase "master level". So instead, maybe something like, "She held her own against the leading British players of the day, and competed successfully in international tournaments at the highest levels." Well, this may be rather stilted, you can perhaps do better.
I do not know if there is a guideline for this, but I recommend that the "Death" and "Personal Life" sections come before the "Playing Style" and "Legacy" sections; that is what I have seen in other Wiki chess biographies.
The first paragraph of the "Personal Life" section, which discusses how she made a living from chess, seems out of place here -- her career isn't her personal life, right? But I do not know of other Wikipedia chess biographies that discuss how the subject made his/her living from chess, so I can't suggest a better place to put it.
It is a stretch to call Maroczy a "past contender for the World Championship". He negotiated for a match with Lasker, but it never came off.
The use of inline citations is impeccable. When you cite two separate pages of Tanner, you can combine them in one footnote. For instance, in discussing the London Girls' Championships, you cite Tanner p. 12 and Tanner pp. 38-39. You could just cite Tanner pp. 12, 38-39.
Whereas Tanner says that Menchik's prize of 8 pounds at Stratford 1925 was worth $543 in 2016 dollars, the article says that it was worth about 490 in 2022 pounds. I think that Wikipedia has templates that can be used to help with currency conversion to present-day approximate values. I will try to look this up, could you do so too?
The Hastings 1927-1928 Major Open A was not the "next edition" of the Hastings 1926-1927 Major Reserves, it was a higher level section (which is why she didn't do as well). I would assume she qualified for the Major Open by winning the previous Major Reserves (but I haven't looked that up).
Here's an interesting tidbit. Ludwig Rellstab, who lost a game to Menchik in the 1927-1928 Hastings Major Open A, was missed by Tanner in his table of Appendix 7. It's important because he was, or later became, quite a strong player. He was German champion in 1942, was awarded the IM title in 1950, and played in some Olympiads in the 1950's, according to his Wiki biography. OK, this is not directly relevant to your article, but I just had to mention it, since I just noticed it.
The discussion of Scarborough 1928 should cite Tanner, p. 43 (or perhaps pp. 43-47).
The claim that Carlsbad 1929 was "was the strongest chess tournament since the First World War" is extravagant. I realize that it is almost a direct quote from Tanner. But having a source doesn't give us license for MOS:PUFFERY. Readers will instantly compare Carlsbad with New York 1924, Moscow 1925, New York 1927, and likely several others.
"Sämisch was one of the inaugural players to receive the Grandmaster title.[30][31]" -- A couple of problems with this: (1) Sämisch's GM title was awarded 21 years later; if it is desirable to mention something that he did to indicate his strength, it should be something more nearly contemporary. (2) The two citations are to Tanner describing Paris 1929 and Barcelona 1929. So they belong on the previous sentence, not on the sentence about Sämisch. (And besides, those pages in Tanner don't mention Sämisch's GM title.)
Tanner, on page 13, says that Menchik won the Hastings C.C. championship with 11½-½, but on page 80 he gives a score of +13-0=1, that is, 13½-½.
The citation for the Britain vs. Holland match and Brighton 1938 mistakenly gives Tanner pp. 162-170; it should be Tanner pp. 196-197. It would be reasonable to have separate citations for these two events.
The discussion leading to the conclusion that Menchik was "generally recognized as an IM-strength level player" is well done. It is correctly supported by citation of Tanner, and leaves off all the strange stuff about ratings retrospectively calculated by Elo, Sonas, etc. I appreciate how well Tanner himself has supported this retrospective evaluation, about which there is always bound to be skepticism, and how much work he put into compiling her scores against other players.
Women's chess section: Menchik did not reach the Premier section of Hastings in 1928; she reached the Premier Reserve section. She reached the Premier section in the 1929-30 event.
"Part of the reason Menchik was invited to the Moscow tournament was the hope that her appearance in the event would help bolster Soviet women's chess" -- this is nearly an exact duplicate of a sentence in the section about 1933-37.
Tanner's claim that Bikova's book "is something of a Soviet propaganda piece of the times" is not particularly relevant, and you don't need to cite it or quote it.
Footnote 105, a citation of the World Chess Hall of Fame website that doesn't link directly to Menchik, looks unnecessary, since footnote 103 links directly to Menchik's entry.
Personal Life section, Families subsection: Tanner (p. 235) says that the pairing system used for the WWC 1937 tournament was the "Monrad" system, not the Swiss system.
In the discussion of Maribor, it is not good practice to state the past and future achievements of Menchik's leading opponents as if they were credentials. Instead, Tanner just says "five strong internationally recognized masters." You don't need to quote this, but it is an example of the right way of giving credit to the strength of her opponents. This isn't an article about Pirc, Steiner, Rejfíř, Asztalos, Vidmar Jr., and Spielmann, it's an article about Menchik. Readers who want to know more about those six guys can follow the Wikilinks.
By the way, why did Tanner say "five"? He must have been including Stupan or Drezga. Oddly enough, I think he meant Drezga, although Drezga had a worse tournament; there is a Wiki article about him, which says that he had some good results while playing in France in the 1920's.
The photo of Euwe in the section about the Vera Menchik club is poorly chosen, because it includes an irrelevant person, who is distracting. Moreover, the person is unidentified in the caption, and even the information accompanying the image doesn't positively identify her, though it suggests she might be his daughter. Find a more suitable photo of Euwe.
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This looks like a very thorough review! I've started addressing some points, and will let you know when I've finished. Sportsfan77777 ( talk) 05:40, 14 May 2023 (UTC)