Nancy Conchar Elder MBE (25 May 1915 – 4 March 1981), née Gordon, was a Scottish chess master. She was a sixteen-times winner the Scottish Women's Chess Championship.

Nancy Elder
CountryScotland
Born(1915-05-25)25 May 1915
Kirkmabreck, Scotland
Died4 March 1981(1981-03-04) (aged 65)
Perth, Australia

Biography

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From the 1950s to the 1980s, Nancy Elder was one of Scotland's strongest female chess players. She sixteen times won the Scottish Women's Chess Championships: 1950, 1956 (jointly), 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1980.[1]

Nancy Elder played for Scotland in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[2]

Nancy Elder working as a teacher of music and physical training. She was President of Dundee Chess Club, chairman of the congress committee of the Scottish Chess Association and on the council of the Scottish Junior Chess Association. In 1974, for her services to chess she was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 1981, Nancy Elder died after a heart attack on the flight in Perth, Western Australia.[3][4]

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  1. ^ Women and Allegro Champs
  2. ^ "OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Nancy Elder". www.olimpbase.org.
  3. ^ REMEMBERING NANCY ELDER MBE (25-V-1915 04-III-1981)
  4. ^ Mrs Nancy Conchar Elder (née Gordon)
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