Miss Fatima

Miss Fatima (1914 – ?, fl. c. 1990) was/is an Indian-British Indian female chess master.

Miss Fatima won the British Women's Chess Championship at Hastings in 1933.[1][2] Earlier, she took 12th place at London 1932 (Edith Michell won). She was a friend of maharaja Sir Umar Hayat Khan. The British Men's Chess Champion in 1929, 1932, and 1933 was Mir Sultan Khan, a servant of Sir Umar Hayat Khan.[3] According to Edward Winer, "Miss Fatima was interviewed about Sultan Khan in the Bandung Limited television production The Sultan of Chess broadcast by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on 19 September 1990. She mentioned that she had given some chess instruction to Queen Mary, the wife of George V."

References

  1. David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed. 1992), Oxford University Press, p. 402. ISBN 0-19-866164-9.
  2. Philip W. Sergeant, A Century of British Chess, David McKay, 1934, pp. 281, 338.
  3. https://web.archive.org/web/20091028082847/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/who.htm


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