The First Queen of Chess. The first Women's World Champion, who held the title from 1927 until her tragic death. Menchik didn't just beat women. She regularly defeated the world's top male players, including future World Champions.
Vera Menchik was the first Women's World Chess Champion, winning the inaugural Women's World Championship in 1927 and defending it seven times until her death. Born in Moscow to a Czech father and English mother, she moved to England and became one of the strongest players in the world, not just among women, but overall. She competed regularly in major international tournaments against the male elite, defeating future World Champions Euwe, Reshevsky, and Sultan Khan. She was killed in a V-1 rocket attack on London in June 1944, along with her sister and mother.
Notable: The 'Vera Menchik Club' was a satirical honor given to male masters she defeated. She won all seven Women's World Championship matches she contested.
| Era | Classical |
| Years | 1906–1944 |
| Peak rating | 2450 |
| Born | Moscow, Russia, 1906 |
| Title | 1st Women's World Champion (1927–1944) |
| Style | Solid, resilient, technically precise, classical positional mastery |
Menchik, reconstructed from the player's own games and measured against a modern engine, as a UCI engine for your machine: it runs locally and offline, loads into CZUBATRONIC 2400 as an external engine, and into any compatible UCI chess interface. Strong chess from the engine; the choices, recognisably Menchik's.
| File | ChessGate_Menchik.exe · 22 MB |
| Runs in | CZUBATRONIC 2400 (as an external engine) and any UCI chess interface |
| Requirements | Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit; any UCI chess interface; CZUBATRONIC 2400 lists it as an external engine |
| Works offline | Yes. No account, no server. |
| Packs | — |
| Collection | Complete Personality Collection |
| In the browser | A lighter version of Menchik plays on ChessGate. |
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