Soviet women's chess championship
The Soviet Women's Chess Championship ( Russian Чемпионат СССР по шахматам среди женщин ) was a chess event that was held in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1991 .
history
Eleven female chess players from Moscow , Leningrad and Vitebsk took part in the first women's championship of the USSR, which was held in 1927 as part of the 5th All-Union Chess Congress . The Moscow House of Trade Unions served as the venue . Three games were played over two days with a two-hour time limit for 36 moves. Olga Rubzowa from Moscow remained unbeaten with 8.5 points and won the championship. The three best chess players (Rubzowa, Agejewa and Tschudowa) were awarded the second category for their achievements.
Before the Second World War , another four tournaments were held at irregular intervals. From 1938 the All Union women's tournaments temporarily disappeared from the schedule. This step was justified by the fact that the chess players would have to compete against men more often in order to improve their playing strength. From 1945 onwards, with a few exceptions, the women's championships took place annually. Almost all of them were held as round-robin tournaments with 16-20 participants per final. A special case was the 1967 championship in Sochi , where the Swiss system was used. The championships in 1951, 1954, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1986 and 1988 were also considered zone tournaments .
The title was won five times by Olga Rubzowa, Walentina Borissenko (1945 as Belowa ) and Nona Gaprindashvili . Nana Iosseliani and Irina Lewitina won four times, with Lewitina being the only chess player to win gold three times in a row.
Overview
literature
- Anatoli Karpow et al .: Chess - encyclopedic dictionary , Sowjetskaja enzyklopedija, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 458. (Russian)
Remarks
- ↑ Olga Semjonowa lost the title in 1935 after a match with Olga Rubzowa (2-7)
- ↑ After a playoff against Kira Sworykina (2.5-0.5)
- ↑ After a playoff against Kira Sworykina (2.5-1.5)
- ↑ After a playoff against Tatiana Satulovskaya (4.5-3.5)
- ↑ The final was originally supposed to take place in 1961, but had to be postponed due to scheduling difficulties.
- ↑ After a playoff against Tatiana Satulovskaya (4–2)
- ↑ After play-off against Alla Tchaikovskaya (3.5-0.5)