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Edith Holloway

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1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 f5 4.f3 fxe4 5.fxe4 g6 6.Be3 e6 7.Nf3 Nf6 8.Nbd2 Ng4 9.Qe2 Nxe3 10.Qxe3 Bg7 11.0–0 Nc6 12.c3 0–0 13.Rf2 Ne7 14.Raf1 d5 15.Ng5 Rxf2 16.Qxf2 Qd7 17.Qf7+ Kh8 18.Nxe6 Rg8 19.e5 Bc8 20.Nxg7 Rxg7 21.Qf6 Nf5 22.Nf3 Qe7 23.Re1 Kg8 24.Qc6 Be6 25.Qa8+ Qf8 26.Qxa7 g5 27.Bxf5 Bxf5 28.Qb7
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at Paris 1924, her individual statistics being +2 −9 =2 (13 games in total, including the preliminaries). Holloway was the first woman to play in an Olympiad, and the event was notable for her defeat of
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She shared first place with Helene Cotton at Meran 1924 (unofficial European women's championship). After the tournament three of the participants (Holloway, Cotton and
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in 1919, she was in the prize list in several subsequent contests, taking the title for a second time in 1936 at the age of sixty-eight.
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player. She was the daughter of sculptor John Denton Crittenden (1834–1877), who exhibited at the Royal Academy.
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Be4 29.Nd2 c5 30.Qxb6 Rf7 31.Qe6 cxd4 32.Nxe4 dxe4 33.cxd4 Qb4 34.Rf1 Qxd4+ 35.Kh1 Qd7 36.Qxf7+ 1–0
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Chessbase - Holloway's appearance at Paris 1924 (in German)
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OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad Paris 1924: information
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World War I
chess
World War I
British Women's Championship
1st unofficial Chess Olympiad
Peter Potemkine
Agnes Stevenson
Paula Wolf-Kalmar
Women's World Chess Championship
London in 1927
Vera Menchik
Peter Potemkine
"Archived copy"
the original
cite web
link
OlimpBase :: Chess Olympiad Paris 1924: information
Unofficial European women’s champion
I campionati del mondo femminile
Chessbase - Holloway's appearance at Paris 1924 (in German)
Categories
1867 births
1956 deaths
British female chess players
British chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors

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