World Women's Chess Championship 1927
The Women's World Chess Championship 1927 was from 18 to 30 July 1927 in London , first as "Ladies Tournament" barred, but later recognized as a world championship chess tournament of the "most competent contenders to this title" on the occasion of the London Congress of the only three-year-old World Chess League . For the only time, players whose chess federations were not members of the World Chess Federation could take part.
The secretary of the British Chess Federation , Leonard A. Rees, organized an international team tournament for the World Chess Federation Congress in 1927, which is considered the first official Chess Olympiad . At the same time, a championship tournament called the premier and a women's tournament took place, which was later recognized as a world championship due to the high level of participants.
The Czech Vera Menchik , who lives in London , won the women's tournament without losing a game and thus became the first world chess champion. She defended the title confidently at the seven subsequent women's world chess championships , first at the one in 1930 , and held it until her death in 1944.
Player 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 Points 1 
Vera Menchik
- 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10½ 2 
Katarina Beskow
0 - 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 9 3 
Paula Kalmar-Wolf
0 1 - 1 1 1 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 7th 4-5 
Edith Holloway
0 0 0 - ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 6th Edith Michell
½ 0 0 ½ - 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 6th 6th Edith Charlotte Price
0 0 0 0 1 - 1 1 1 0 ½ 1 5½ 7th Gisela Harum
0 0 1 ½ 0 0 - 0 1 0 1 1 4½ 8th 
Florence Hutchison-Stirling
0 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 - 0 1 0 ½ 4th 9-11 
Marie Jeanne Frigard
0 0 1 ½ 0 0 0 1 - 0 1 0 3½ Agnes Stevenson
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 - ½ 0 3½ 
S. Synnevaag
0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ - 1 3½ 12 
Martha Daunke
0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 - 3
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Individual references and sources
- ↑ The London Congress of the World Chess Federation. In: Wiener Schachzeitung . Issue 15/1927, August 1927. pp. 217-218. Online view: page 217 , page 218 .
- ↑ Edward Winter : Championship confusion . Chesshistory.com, January 29, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
- ↑ Table from: B. M. Kazic: International Championship Chess: A complete record of FIDE events . Pp. 259-263. Reprinted on Mark Weeks website . Retrieved December 13, 2012.