World Women's Chess Championship 1939

The women's world chess championship was the seventh competition for the title of world chess champion , and the last before the break caused by the Second World War , with part of the tournament already taking place after the outbreak of European war . The title was determined in a round-robin tournament in Buenos Aires during the 1939 Chess Olympiad , which Vera Menchik won undefeated. She only gave two draws against her 19 opponents. María Teresa Mora from Cuba was able to participate in the FIDE world chess federation due to the fact that her country was accepted shortly before . Sonja Graf competed as a stateless person under the fantasy flag of the fictional country "Libre".

	Player	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	Points
1	Vera Menchik	-	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	18th
2	Sonja Graf	0	-	0	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	16
3	Berna Carrasco	0	1	-	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	1	15½
4th	Friedl cattle	0	0	1	-	1	½	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	15th
5	Mona Karff	0	1	0	0	-	1	1	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	14th
6th	Milda Lauberte	½	0	0	½	0	-	1	½	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	½	12
7th	Maria Teresa Mora	0	0	0	0	0	0	-	1	½	0	1	1	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	1	11
8th	Catharina Roodzant	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	-	½	1	½	1	1	½	1	½	1	1	1	1	11
9	Blažena Janečková	0	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	½	-	½	1	1	1	½	0	1	1	0	1	9
10	Paulette Schwartzmann	½	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	-	½	½	1	½	½	½	½	0	1	1	1	9
11	Ingrid Larsen	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	½	½	½	-	½	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1	8½
12	Dora Trepat de Navarro	0	0	1	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	-	½	1	½	½	½	1	1	1	8th
13	Ingeborg Andersson	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	0	0	½	-	½	½	1	1	1	1	1	7½
14th	Salome Reischer	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	½	-	1	1	1	0	1	1	7th
15th	Maria Berea de Montero	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	½	½	0	½	½	0	-	1	½	1	½	1	7th
16	Marianne Stoffels	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	1	1	½	0	0	0	-	1	1	½	½	7th
17th	Maria A. de Vigil	0	0	0	1	0	½	0	0	1	0	1	½	0	0	½	0	-	0	½	1	6th
18th	Elena Raclauskienė	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	-	½	1	3½
19th	Ruth Bloch-Nakkerud	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	½	-	0	3
20th	Annabelle Lougheed	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	-	2

consequences

Because of the outbreak of war in Europe, Paulette Schwartzmann, who was of the Israelite religion , decided to stay in Argentina. Sonja Graf also stayed in the country.

Vera Menchik died as a world champion in London in 1944 as a civilian victim of the Second World War. The title remained vacant until the women's chess world championship in 1949/50 .

literature

The tournament serves - together with the men's tournament of the Chess Olympiad - as a backdrop in the novel The Chess Players of Buenos Aires by the Argentine writer Ariel Magnus . In the tournaments, the world events take place in the representation of Magnus on a small scale.

Individual references and sources

1. ↑ I Campionati del mundo feminile . Retrieved August 15, 2016.
2. ^ Campeonato Mundo femenino Buenos Aires 1939 . Retrieved August 2, 2013.
3. ↑ World Cup tables at Mark Weeks (English) . Retrieved August 2, 2013.
4. ↑ Edward Winter : Championship confusion . Chesshistory.com, January 29, 2015. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Negele: Fate of a “Miss Miracle” - Sonja Graf-Stevenson's path through life ( Memento from May 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) . February 10, 2007. PDF file , accessed May 24, 2015.
6. ↑ passenger list of Piriápolis , accessed February 18, 2015.