Nelly Fišerová

Nelly Fišerová was a Czech chess master. She was Women's World Chess Championship participant (1937).

Nelly Fišerová
CountryCzechoslovakia

She lived in Mladá Boleslav, where in Rudolf Charousek named chess club Nelly Fišerová became for one of the leading Czechoslovak chess female players. In 1937, contrary to the decision of Czechoslovak chess federation, she participated in Women's World Chess Championship in Stockholm, where shared the 6th-7th place with Mona May Karff.[1]

During World War II she had been repressed. In 1941 Nazi Germany authorities sent Fišerová to a concentration camp where she died.[2]

References
  1. "1927-39 Title Tournaments : World Chess Championship (women)". www.mark-weeks.com.
  2. "Karel Opočenský, Jak jsem je znal, Československý sport 14. 9.1974" (PDF).


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