Mona May Karff [SEP] date of death
Mona May Karff
Mona May Karff ("née" Minna Ratner; 20 October 1908 – 10 January 1998) was an American competitive chess player. Karff dominated U.S. women's chess in the 1940s and early 1950s and had an extended career. She held seven U.S. Women's Chess Champion titles and four consecutive U.S. Open titles.
She was born in Bessarabia, a province in Tsarist Russia. Sometime after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, her family moved to Tel-Aviv, in what was then Palestine. Her father
U.S. Women's Chess Championship
Following are the results of the U.S. Women's Chess Championship from 1937 to date. The tournament determines the woman chess champion of the United States.
List of U.S. Women's Chess Champions.
- 1937 Adele Rivero
- 1938 Mona May Karff
- 1940 Adele Rivero
- 1941 Mona May Karff
- 1942 Mona May Karff
- 1944 Gisela Kahn Gresser
- 1946 Mona May Karff
- 1948 Gisela Kahn Gresser - Mona May Karff
- 1951 Mary Bain
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