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