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Kira Zvorykina and Olga Rubtsova, the winning Soviet Union team.
Ingrid Larsen, who played on the Danish team who finished 13th.
Short news video on the Olympiad.

The 1st Women's Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE, took place between 2 and 21 September 1957, in Emmen, Netherlands.[1][2][3]

Results

Preliminaries

A total of 21 two-woman teams entered the competition and were divided into three preliminary groups of seven teams. The top three from each group advanced to Final A, the teams placed 4th–5th to Final B, and 6th–7th to Final C. All groups and finals were played as round-robin tournaments.

Group 1 was won by the Soviet Union, well ahead of Netherlands and Romania.

East Germany took first place in group 2, ahead of Bulgaria and Hungary.

Group 3 was won by Yugoslavia, ahead of West Germany and England.

Final

Final A
# Country Players Points MP
1  Soviet Union Olga Rubtsova, Kira Zvorykina 10½ 12
2  Romania Maria Pogorevici, Margareta Teodorescu 10½ 10
3  East Germany Edith Keller-Herrmann, Ursula Altrichter 10
4  Hungary Irén Hönsch, Éva Kertész 8½
5  Bulgaria Venka Asenova, Antonia Ivanova 8
6  Yugoslavia Lidia Timofeeva, Tereza Štadler 7½
7  England Elaine Pritchard, Eileen Betsy Tranmer 7
8  West Germany Friedl Rinder, Ruth Landmesser 6
9  Netherlands Fenny Heemskerk, Catharina Roodzant, A. van der Veen 4

Individual medals

References

  1. ^ "Emmen Olympiad 1957". www.icu.ie.
  2. ^ "1958 Men & 1957 Women Chess Olympiad". www.chessgames.com.
  3. ^ "The Encyclopaedia of Chess". St. Martin's Press. 11 September 1970 – via Google Books.
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