World Women's Chess Championship 1937 (Stockholm)

The tournament for the women's chess world championship in 1937 was a few weeks after the duel between Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf the second title fight in 1937. World chess champion Vera Menchik defended one in the 14-round tournament in the Monrad system held during the 1937 Chess Olympiad in Stockholm Variant of the Swiss system , your title successful by winning all games. The youngest player was the 18-year-old Latvian Milda Lauberte , who was considered a young talent due to her high ranking.

	Player	Points
1	Vera Menchik	14th
2	Clarice Benini	10
3-4	Milda Lauberte	9
	Sonja Graf	9
5	Mary Bain	8½
6-7	Mona May Karff	8th
	Nelly Fišerova	8th
8-9	Ingeborg Andersson	7½
	Mary Gilchrist	7½
10-16	Róża Herman	7th
	Catharina Roodzant	7th
	E. St. John	7th
	Anna Andersson	7th
	Regina Gerlecka	7th
	Clara Faragó	7th
	Edith Holloway	7th
17-20	Barbara Fleröw-Bułhak	6½
	Gisela Harum	6½
	Salome Reischer	6½
	Olga Menchik	6½
21-22	Florence Frankland Thomson	6th
	Ingrid Larsen	6th
23	Katarina Beskow	5½
24	AMS O'Shannon	5
25th	Ruth Bloch-Nakkerud	2
26th	Elisabeth Mellbye	1

Individual references and sources

1. ↑ In the Wiener Schachzeitung, edition 13/14, July 1937, p. 195, the age is wrongly given as 17 years.
2. ^ The Stockholm Olympiad , in: Wiener Schachzeitung , edition 13/14, July 1937, p. 193 and p. 195.
3. ^ Final result from the article Damenturnier , in: Wiener Schachzeitung, edition 15/16, August 1937, p. 230.
4. ↑ Note: Unofficial flag