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- ↑ "Vera Menchik by Bill Wall". Archived from the original on 2009-10-21.
- ↑ "Title Unknown". Archived from the original on 2009-10-19.
- ↑ Chess Notes 4034. The code-breakers by Edward Winter; based on a report from CHESS , February 1945, p. 73.
