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Mary Weiser Bain

Birth
Uzhhorod, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpatska, Ukraine
Death
26 Oct 1972 (aged 68)
New York, New York County, New York, USA
Burial
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born in Hungary, later Czechoslovakia; sent by her mother to to New York to join her sister when she was 17 (1921); married Leslie Balogh Bain in 1926, divorced in 1948

American chess master, first American woman to represent the U.S. in an organized international chess competition.
born in Hungary, later Czechoslovakia; sent by her mother to to New York to join her sister when she was 17 (1921); married Leslie Balogh Bain in 1926, divorced in 1948

American chess master, first American woman to represent the U.S. in an organized international chess competition.

Gravesite Details

Wikipedia; Chess.com by Batgirl


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