Elaine Zelia Pritchard (7 January 1926 – 7 January 2012), née Saunders, was an English chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1957).

Pritchard learned to play chess at the age of five, and was considered a child prodigy.

[1] For two consecutive years, she won the World Girl Chess Championships (1936, 1937), and also successfully participated in simultaneous exhibitions against Alexander Alekhine and Rudolf Spielmann.

Elaine Pritchard four times won the British Women's Chess Championships (1939, 1946 — after winning an additional match against Rowena Mary Bruce,[3] 1956, 1965).

[4] Pritchard played for England in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[5] In 1957, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title.