Patricia Anne Sunnucks (born 21 February 1927) is an author and the several time British Women's Chess Champion (1957, 1958, 1964). Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation.
Although she learned how to play chess at age 8, she did not play seriously until age 21 when she joined the same chess club as Imre König, who became her tutor. Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. A chess club is a Club formed for the purpose of playing Chess. Imre König (Koenig aka Mirko Kenig ( 9 February 1899, Gyula Hungary – 1992 Santa Monica, California was a Hungarian Chess By finishing tied for second place in the 1953 British Women's Championship she became one of three British representatives in the 1954 Western European Zonal.
Sunnucks earned the Woman International Master title by placing second in the 1954 Western European Zonal. Although this result qualified her to play in the next event in the Women's World Championship sequence, she was a major in the Women's Royal Army Corps and the authorities would not allow her to travel to the USSR where the 1955 Women's Candidates tournament was being held. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Sunnucks represented England several times in Olympiads and team matches, including Great Britain vs. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other USSR 1954, the Anglo-Dutch match in 1965, and top board for the British Chess Federation (BCF) team at the 1966 Women's Chess Olympiad at Oberhausen. The English Chess Federation (ECF is the governing Chess organisation in England and is one of the federations of the FIDE. Oberhausen (ˈoːbɐhaʊzən is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She participated in the Women's World Championship cycle two more times, representing the BCF in the Western European Zonal tournaments of 1963 and 1966. Sunnucks won both the Army and the Combined Services Championships in 1968, and was the only woman to compete in either. Sunnucks compiled The Encyclopaedia of Chess (1970, second edition: 1976).
References
- Brace, Edward R. (1977), An Illustrated Dictionary of Chess, Hamlyn Publishing Group, pp. 275, ISBN 1-55521-394-4
- Golombek, Harry (1977), “Sunnucks, Patricia Anne”, Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Batsford, pp. Harry Golombek OBE ( March 1[[ 911]]– January 7 1995) was a British Chess International Master and honorary grandmaster 313, ISBN 0-517-53146-1
- Sunnucks, Anne (1970), Encyclopaedia of Chess, New York: St. Martin's Press, LCCN 78-06371, ISBN 978-0709146971 (ISBN is for the second edition)
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