List of international women's champions (awarded 1951 to 1960)

Kira Sworykina played in the 1959 women's world chess championship .

The list of International Women's Masters (awarded 1951 to 1960) lists all female chess players who received the title of International Women's Masters (WIM) from the World Chess Federation FIDE between 1951 and 1960 .

In March 2019, four of the 26 players honored in these years are still alive. Eleven of the 26 players later achieved the title of Women's Grandmaster , Krystyna Radzikowska (then Krystyna Holuj) was later awarded the title of Honorary Women's Grandmaster .

Legend

The table contains the following information:

Name : Give the name of the player.
Year : The year in which the player was awarded the WIM title.
Country : States the country for which the player was eligible to play at the time the title was awarded.
Life data : states the year of birth and possibly the year of death of the player.
WGM : Indicates the year of the award for players who were later named women's grandmasters.
HWGM : Indicates the year of the award for players who were later named Honorary Grand Master of Women.
Other associations : For players who were sooner or later eligible to play for at least one other association, specifies these associations with the periods of entitlement to play (if known). Changes to a successor state are taken into account if the player was still active in chess at that time.

Surname	year	country	Life dates	WGM	HWGM	other associations
Mary Bain	1952	United States	1904-1972
Celia Baudot de Moschini	1954	Argentina	1910-2006
María Berea de Montero	1952	Argentina	1914-1983
Rowena Mary Bruce	1951	England	1919-1999
Berna Carrasco	1954	Chile	1914-2013
Květa Eretová	1957	Czechoslovakia	1926	1986		Czech Republic (since 1993)
Josefa Gurfinkel	1954	Soviet Union	1919-1997
Krystyna Hołuj	1954	Poland	1931-2006		1984
Soledad Huguet	1957	Argentina	1934
Olga Ignatieva	1952	Soviet Union	1920-1999	1978
Antonia Ivanova	1954	Bulgaria	1930-2004	1983
Verica Jovanović	1954	Yugoslavia	1929	1977
Éva Kertész	1955	Hungary	1922-1995	1982
Lisa Lane	1959	United States	1938
Milunka Lazarevic	1954	Yugoslavia	1932-2018	1976		Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), Serbia (from 2006)
Alexandra Nicolau	1960	Romania	1940-2013	1977		Netherlands (from 1975)
Maria Pogorevici	1957	Romania	1932-2005	1985
Elisabeta Polihroniade	1960	Romania	1935-2016	1982
Salome Reischer	1952	Austria	1899-1980
Friedl cattle	1957	Federal Republic of Germany	1905-2001
Salme Rootare	1957	Soviet Union	1913-1987			Estonia (until 1940)
Elaine Saunders	1957	England	1926-2012
Růžena Suchá	1954	Czechoslovakia	1907-1989
Anne Sunnucks	1954	England	1927-2014
Kira Sworykina	1952	Soviet Union	1919-2014	1977		Russia (1992–1993, from 2000), Belarus (1993–2000)
Larissa Volpert	1954	Soviet Union	1926-2017	1977

Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924–2002. Euroadria, Slovenia 2002, OCLC 446052391 .