Miss Fatima
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Ghulam Fatima (c. July 1912Various UK newspaper reports, e.g. Western Mail, 12 August 1933, coinciding with her British Championship title win in August 1933, give her age as 21 years and 1 month. – ?, fl. c. 1990), frequently referred to as 'Miss Fatima', was a British-Indian female chess master.
Ghulam FatimaShip's Passenger List for the Moldavia, 29 December 1933, gives her name as 'Ghulam Fatima' though the latter name is misspelt as 'Fatims'. won the British Women's Chess Championship at Hastings in 1933.David Hooper and Kenneth Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd ed. 1992), Oxford University Press, p. 402. {{ISBN|0-19-866164-9}}.Philip W. Sergeant, A Century of British Chess, David McKay, 1934, pp. 281, 338. Her first formal competition was the 1932 British Women's Chess Championship in London in which she took 6th place (Edith Michell 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, a servant of Sir Umar Hayat Khan.{{Cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/who.htm|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091028082847/http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/7378/who.htm|archive-date = 2009-10-28|title = Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos}}
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."
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External links
- Edward Winter, [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter60.html#6201._Miss_Fatima Chess Note 6201: Miss Fatima]
- Edward Winter, [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter60.html#CN_6208 Chess Note 6208: Miss Fatima (C.N. 6201)]
- [http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/britchamps.html BritBase - List of all British Chess Champions from 1904 to present]
- [http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/193307bcf-viewer.html BritBase - 1933 British Chess Championship]
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