World Chess Championship for women 1949/50
The women's chess world championship 1949/50 was the competition for the title of world chess champion from December 19, 1949 to January 18, 1950 in the Central Club of the Red Army in Moscow . The tournament was played as a round-robin tournament, so that each player had to compete against each other. Vera Tschudowa from the Soviet Union, which joined the World Chess Federation FIDE in 1947, acted as the main referee .
After the first world champion Vera Menchik, still reigning in World War II , was killed in a rocket attack on June 27, 1944 and no other women's chess world championship had been held since then, the winner Lyudmila Rudenko was historically the second world chess champion and the first from the Soviet Union . Her two direct successors took third and second place here.
German participation
In the run-up to the event, there were controversies about German participation, against which Erwin Voellmy and Vyacheslav Ragosin , among others , spoke out. Voellmy said that 95 percent of German chess players were former National Socialists , while after Ragosin a “ cleaning ” had taken place in the Soviet zone, but Germany's participation in the women's world chess championships should be postponed.
Edith Keller was also seen as Germany's chess hopefuls due to previous victories against strong male opponents and ultimately reached fifth place behind the Soviet players.
course
Player 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 Points Fine evaluation 1 
Lyudmila Rudenko- 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 11½ (80.00) 2 Olga Rubzowa
0 - 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 ½ 10½ (70.75) 3 Yelisaveta Bykova
0 0 - ½ 1 1 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 10 68.25 4th Valentina Belowa
½ 0 ½ - 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 67.75 5 
Edith Keller
½ ½ 0 0 - 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 9½ 62.00 6th 
Eileen Tranmer
½ ½ 0 0 0 - 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 9½ 61.75 7th 
Chantal Chaudé de Silans
½ ½ 0 0 1 0 - 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 1 9½ 60.00 8th 
Fenny Heemskerk
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 - 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 8th (52.00) 9 
Clarice Benini
0 ½ 1 1 0 0 1 0 - 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 7th (49.75) 10 
Jozsa Langos
0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 - ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ 6th 44.25 11 
Maria Teresa Mora
0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ - 1 1 1 0 0 6th 38.75 12 
Gisela Gresser
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 - 1 0 0 1 5 32.50 13 
Nina Hrušková-Bělská
0 0 ½ 0 1 0 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 - ½ 1 ½ 5 32.50 14th Mona Karff
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ - 1 1 5 25.00 15th 
Ingrid Larsen
½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 - 1 4½ (29.50) 16 
Róża Herman
0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 0 - 3 (20.75)
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The results and Rudenko's world championship title were announced at the closing ceremony by Marcel Berman, a vice-president of the FIDE world chess federation.
At the closing ceremony, the four Soviet players were each awarded the title “ Chess Master of the USSR ”.
At the end of the tournament, the participants were all positive about the organization.
Web links
- All 120 games of the world championship on 365Chess (English)
Individual references and sources
- ↑ Ludmilla Rudenko - world chess champion . In: Schach-Express, January 2, 1950, pp. 17-18.
- ↑ a b Solemn end of the women's world championship . In: Schach-Express, February 1, 1950, p. 33.
- ↑ In the original text "purification": Ragozin stated that "purification" had taken place in the Soviet Zone . Quoted from: Readmission of Germany . In: Chess, issue 166–168 (July - September 1949), p. 215.
- ↑ Readmission of Germany . In: Chess, issue 166–168 (July - September 1949), p. 215.
- ↑ Is Edith Keller going to Moscow? In: Deutsche Schach-Rundschau Caissa. Issue 5/1949 (March 1949). Pp. 71-72.
- ↑ Table in Mark Weeks , accessed June 26, 2013
- ↑ This is how the participants judge . In: Chess Express. February 1st issue 1950. pp. 34–35.