Soviet women's chess championship

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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

# year place master
1 1927 Moscow Olga Rubzowa
2 1931 Moscow Olga Rubzowa
3 1934/1935 Leningrad Olga Semyonova
4th 1936 Leningrad Olga Semyonova
5 1937 Rostov on Don Olga Rubzowa
6th 1945 Moscow Valentina Belowa
7th 1946 Moscow Yelisaveta Bykova
8th 1947 Moscow Yelisaveta Bykova
9 1948 Moscow Olga Rubzowa
10 1950 Riga Yelisaveta Bykova
11 1951 Kiev Kira Sworykina
12 1952 Tbilisi Lyudmila Rudenko
13 1953 Rostov on Don Kira Sworykina
14th 1954 Krasnodar Larissa Volpert
15th 1955 Sukhumi Valentina Borisenko
16 1956 Dnepropetrovsk Kira Sworykina
17th 1957 Vilnius Valentina Borisenko
18th 1958 Kharkov Larissa Volpert
19th 1959 Lipetsk Larissa Volpert
20th 1960 Riga Valentina Borisenko
21st 1962 Yerevan Valentina Borisenko
22nd 1962 Riga Tatiana Satulovskaya
23 1963 Baku Maaja Ranniku
24 1964 Tbilisi Nona Gaprindashvili
25th 1965 Belzy Valentina Kozlovskaya
26th 1966 Kiev Nana Alexandria
27 1967 Sochi Maaja Ranniku
28 1968 Ashkhabad Nana Alexandria
29 1969 Gori Nana Alexandria
30th 1970 Belzy Alla Kuschnir
31 1971 Sochi Irina Levitina
32 1972 Tolyatti Marta Schul
33 1973/1974 Tbilisi Nona Gaprindashvili
34 1974 Tbilisi Elena Fatalibekova
35 1975 Frunze Lyudmila Belavenez
36 1976 Tbilisi Anna Achsharumova
37 1977 Lwow Maia Chiburdanidze
38 1978 Nikolayev Lydyja Semenowa
Irina Levitina
39 1979 Tbilisi Irina Levitina
40 1980 Alma-ata Irina Levitina
41 1981 Ivano-Frankovsk Nona Gaprindashvili
Nana Iosseliani
42 1982 Tallinn Nana Iosseliani
43 1983 Vilnius Nona Gaprindashvili
44 1984 Kiev Svetlana Matwejewa
Anna Achscharumowa
45 1985 Yerevan Nona Gaprindashvili
46 1986 Frunze Nana Iosseliani
47 1987 Tbilisi Nana Iosseliani
48 1988 Alma-ata Julia Djomina
49 1989 Wolschski Irina Tschelushkina
50 1990 Podolsk Ketewan Arachamia
51 1991 Lwow Svetlana Matveyeva

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Olga Semjonowa lost the title in 1935 after a match with Olga Rubzowa (2-7)
  2. ↑ After a playoff against Kira Sworykina (2.5-0.5)
  3. ↑ After a playoff against Kira Sworykina (2.5-1.5)
  4. ↑ After a playoff against Tatiana Satulovskaya (4.5-3.5)
  5. ↑ The final was originally supposed to take place in 1961, but had to be postponed due to scheduling difficulties.
  6. ↑ After a playoff against Tatiana Satulovskaya (4–2)
  7. ↑ After play-off against Alla Tchaikovskaya (3.5-0.5)