Miss Fatima

Miss Fatima (1914 – ?) was 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 Champion in 1929, 1932, and 1933 was Mir Sultan Khan, also a servant of Sir Umar.[3]

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. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20091028082847/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/who.htm

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