1930 Women's World Chess Championship

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The 1930 women's chess world championship was the second competition for the title of world chess champion and took place during the 1930 Chess Olympiad in Hamburg. Vera Menchik successfully defended her title in the two- round tournament.

Probably only one player from each country was allowed. World champion Menchik submitted a corresponding application for the admission of further female players to the women's chess championship in 1931 , which allowed more than one player per country to take part from 1933 .

For the only time Menchik lost a game here in a world championship tournament . In a duel in Semmering in 1937, she lost two more against Sonja Graf , these were her only three losing games at the World Chess Championships.

Player 1 2 3 4th 5 Points
1 Czechoslovakia 1920Czechoslovakia Vera Menchik - ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
2 AustriaAustria Paula Kalmar-Wolf ½ 0 - 1 0 1 1 1 1
3 GermanyGermany Wally Henschel 1 0 0 1 - 1 1 0 ½
4th SwedenSweden Katarina Beskow 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 1 2
5 EnglandEngland Agnes Stevenson 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 -

Individual references and sources

  1. World Cup tables at Mark Weeks (English) . Retrieved August 3, 2013
  2. In the shadow of the Olympics. In: Wiener Schachzeitung, issue 16/1931, August 1931. pp. 241–242.