Women's Events 1927-39 : Discrepancies

Continuing with World Chess Championship (Women) : 1927-39 Title Tournaments, in last week's post Women's Events 1927-39 : Players, I built a table showing 'Which players participated in which events' and noted,

I counted nine events and 55 players on the page, across which there are a few items for further investigation. [...] I'll look at the discrepancies in another post.

Since most of the discrepancies were with the names of players, I started by examining Gaige's 'Chess Personalia', but quickly determined that his coverage of early women players was uneven. I switched to Whyld's 'Guinness - Chess - The Records', and was able to complete the task of resolving discrepancies. Whyld has two pages on the early Women's Championship, including eight of the nine events on my own page, which was based on Kazic's 'International Championship Chess'. Only the 1934 Rotterdam match is missing, which Kazic notes was 'not under the auspices of FIDE'.

Whyld spent more effort than Kazic resolving the names of the players across the eight events. On top of that, his book has nearly 40 pages cross referencing almost all of the players listed in 'The Records' portion of the book. After tackling the discrepancies I compared the names given by Kazic against the names given by Whyld and gave preference to Whyld. I ended up with 51 different players in Kazic's nine events.

While I was working on this, I looked at Wikipedia's page Women's World Chess Championship. Its 'List of Women's World Chess Championships' has nine early events all of which lead to a separate Wikipedia page. Those pages for events have good coverage of the participants, usually leading to a separate page for a player. For example, the 1937 Stockholm event has tentative links for all 26 players, of which six are missing, and the 1939 Buenos Aires event has links for 20 players, of which four are missing.

Next step: Add the info for the 51 different players to my page World Chess Championship : Index of Women Players.

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Later: Re 'Next step', while adding the 51 names to the index, I counted seven who were already listed for having played in a later tournament. I wasn't sure whether one player was the same...

Berea M : 1927-39 Chp
Berea de Montero M : 1952 CT

...so I left both entries for now.

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Even later: Wikipedia's page Maria Berea de Montero explains,

An Argentine chess Woman International Master (WIM) and women's champion of Argentina in 1951. With the married name of María Angélica Berea de Montero, she participated in the Women's World Chess Championship 1939 in Buenos Aires. She played in several national and South American tournaments, winning the Argentine title in 1951. This let her play in the Candidates tournament of Moscow 1952 and gave her the title of Woman International Master.

The page was created in January 2014.