Dee ihe ndị ọzọ dị na paragraf a - N'afọ 1939, Sonja Graf gara Buenos Aires, Argentina igwu egwuregwu n'asọmpi ndị inyom na-agba n'ụwa
, nke a na-eme n'otu oge na 8th Chess Olympiad. N'ihi nkwenye ya n'ihu ọha nke gọọmentị Hitler, ewepụrụ ya na ndepụta nke ndị sonyere German ma kpọọ n'okpuru ọkọlọtọ "Libre" ("n'efu" na Spanish). Na September, ka asọmpi ahụ ka na-aga n'ihu, Germany wakporo Poland, na-akpata Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ ma na-akpata ọgba aghara a na-enwetụbeghị ụdị ya n'asọmpi ahụ. Ụfọdụ ìgwè kwụsịrị, ndị ọzọ jụrụ isonyere ìgwè ndị si mba ụfọdụ. Ma Graf ma Menchik gbara asọmpi ahụ dum. Graf meriri egwuregwu iri na isii ma tufuo atọ, wee bụrụ onye nke abụọ. N'egwuregwu ya megide Menchik, Graf tụfuru mgbe ọ nwetasịrị ọnọdụ mmeri, ihe ọ na-akwa ụta mgbe niile ("megide Menchik, mgbe ọ bụ onye mmeri ụwa, enwere m egwuregwu meriri, mana achọtara m ihe atọ kachasị nzuzu ị nwere ike iche n'echiche ma tufuo. "<unk>" New Yorker ", Septemba 19, 1964). Mgbe agha ahụ tiwapụrụ, Sonja Graf, ya na ọtụtụ ndị ọzọ so n'egwuregwu Olimpik ahụ, kpebiri ịnọgide n'udo nke Argentina.