Marie Jeanne Frigard
French chess player
Marie Jeanne Stein (née Frigard; 30 October 1904, Grimaud – 29 July 1971, Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French chess player and classical violinist. She was a four-time French Women's Chess Champion (1924, 1925, 1926, 1927). She was a participant in the first Women's World Chess Championship in 1927.
Biography
In 1924, Frigard won the first French Women's Chess Championship in Paris after a playoff. She repeated this success three times from 1925 to 1927. In 1925 and 1927 she finished in second place but was nevertheless crowned the French women's champion, because the Paulette Schwartzmann, the winner of both tournaments, did not have French citizenship. In 1924, she finished second out of three players in a women's amateur chess tournament in Westende. In 1927 she participated in the first Women's World Chess Championship in London won by Vera Menchik, where she shared 9th–11th places. After 1927 she rarely participated in chess tournaments.
Marie Jeanne Frigard played violin from the age of seven.
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