Photo #120945, 23 x 16 cm. January 1950, Moscow, Women's World Chess Championship, In the photo: Championship participant M. Mora /Cuba/. Press Photo Agency. PRINTED IN THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

* María Teresa Mora Iturralde (15 October 1902 - 3 October 1980) was a Cuban chess master. Born in Havana, she is the only person who received direct lessons from José Raúl Capablanca.[2] Mora was the first woman to win the Cuban Chess Championship (in 1922).

This item originates from the chess book collection of Zahari Stanchev, (April 27, 1920 - January 27, 1980) from Sofia, Bulgaria. Stanchev was Bulgaria's representative to FIDE in the 1960s, a writer of chess books, and an international arbiter.