International Woman Master (1954) and winner of the British Ladies'
Championship in 1957, 1958 and 1964.

Born on 21st February 1927, Anne Sunnucks learned the moves at the age
of 8 but did not take up chess seriously until she was 21, when she
joined the same club as International Master, Imre König, whose pupil
she became. After coming =~2nd in the 1953 British Ladies'
Championship, she was selected as one of three British representatives
in the 1954 Western European Zonal tournament, in which she came 2nd
and qualified for the 1955 Women's Candidates' tournament but was
unable to compete.

She played for Great Britain v. the U.S.S.R. in 1954 and in the
Anglo-Dutch match in 1965. In 1966 she played top board for the
British Chess Federation team in the Women's Chess Olympiad at
Oberhausen. She also represented the B.C.F. in the Western European
Zonal tournaments of 1963 and 1966.

A major in the Women's Royal Army Corps, Anne Sunnucks, as the only
woman competitor, won both the Army and the Combined Services
Championships in 1968. While stationed in Germany in 1964, she became
the first woman to win the championship of Krefeld.

She is one of the three British players at present competing in the
Women's World Correspondence Championship.