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Clarice Benini (8 January 1905 – 6 September 1976) was an Italian
Clarice Benini (8 January 1905 – 6 September 1976) was an Italian chess
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player. She was awarded the title International Woman Master by FIDE
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in 1950.
Benini was born in Florence
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. In 1936, she finished second, behind Sonja Graf, in Semmering, Austria
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. The next year, Benini also came second in the Women's World Championship
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History
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at Stockholm
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, behind Vera Menchik
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and ahead of Sonja Graf
Susanna "Sonja" Graf (December 16, 1908 – March 6, 1965) was a German and American chess player. She was a women's world championship runner-up and a two-time U.S. women's champion. In 2016, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.
...
, Milda Lauberte
Milda Lauberte (7 October 1918 in Vildoga – October 19, 2009 in Riga) was a Latvian chess master.
She played in two Women's World Championship tournaments, sharing third place with Sonja Graf, behind Vera Menchik and Clarice Benini at Stock ...
, Mary Bain
Mary Weiser Bain (August 8, 1904 – October 26, 1972) was an American chess master.
Biography
She was born in or near Ungvár, Kárpátalja, Hungary, which is now Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia oblast, Ukraine, into an assimilated Jewish family. Under ...
, Mona May Karff, and others. She was the twice Italian women's champion, winning at Milan 1938 and Rome 1939.
Benini took ninth place in the 1949/50 Women's World Championship in Moscow
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, which was won by Ludmila Rudenko
Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (, ; 27 July 1904 – 4 March 1986) was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953.
Rudenko was awarded the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Internati ...
. She tied for 3rd-4th at Venice 1951 (Women's World Championship zonal), won at Gardone 1956, took 6th at Venice 1957 (zonal), won at Amsterdam 1957, and took 2nd at Beverwijk 1958.Litmanowicz, Władysław; Giżycki, Jerzy (1986, 1987). ''Szachy od A do Z'' (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sport i Turystyka. (1. A-M), (2. N-Z) On 6 September 1976, Benini was murdered by her neighbour, an insane farmer, in Poggio a Vico, Rufina
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Rufina borders the following municipalities: Dicomano, Londa, Montemignaio, Pelago, Pontassieve, Pratovec ...
, Florence.
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