Olga Menchik (Menčíková, Menčik) Rubery (1908, Moscow – 26 June 1944, Clapham, London) was a Czech–British female chess master.
Born in Moscow to a Czech father and a British mother, she was younger sister to Vera Menchik. They all moved to England in 1921. In January 1927, Vera won the London ladies championship, and Olga took second place.[1]
She took fourth place in the fifth Women's World Chess Championship at Warsaw 1935,[2] and tied for 17-20th in the sixth WWCC at Stockholm 1937[3] (Vera Menchik won both events).
She married a British man, Clifford Granville Rubery.[4] Olga, aged 37,[4] her sister and their mother were killed in a bombing raid when a German V-1 flying bomb hit her home at 47 Gauden Road, Clapham, south London, in 1944.[5][4]
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