Ghulam Fatima (c. July 1912 – ?,
fl.
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c. 1990), frequently referred to as 'Miss Fatima', was a British-Indian female
chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...
master.
Ghulam Fatima won the
British Women's Chess Championship at Hastings in 1933. Her first formal competition was the 1932 British Women's Chess Championship in London in which she took 6th place (
Edith Michell
Edith Mary Ann Michell (née Tapsell) (26 July 1872 in Croydon, Surrey – 18 October 1951 in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex) was an English female chess master.
At the beginning of her career, she twice won Redhill Chess Club championships in 1906 and ...
won). She was a member of the household of
Sir Umar Hayat Khan. The British Men's Chess Champion in 1929, 1932, and 1933 was
Mir Sultan Khan
Sultan Khan ( Punjabi and , 1903 – 25 April 1966; often given the erroneous honorific ''Mir Sultan Khan'' or ''Mir Malik Sultan Khan'') was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the strongest Asian player ...
, a servant of Sir Umar Hayat Khan.
According to Edward Winter, "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
External links
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Edward WinterChess Note 6201: Miss Fatima* Edward Winter
* ttp://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/193307bcf-viewer.html BritBase - 1933 British Chess Championship*
Pakistani female chess players
Pakistani chess players
British female chess players
British chess players
1910s births
Year of death missing
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