Olga Rubtsova
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Full name | Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova |
Country | Soviet Union |
Born | Moscow, Russian Empire | 20 August 1909
Died | 13 December 1994 Moscow, Russia | (aged 85)
Title | International Master (1956) Woman Grandmaster (1976) |
Women's World Champion | 1956–1958 |
ICCF World Champion | 1968–1972 (women) |
Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova (Russian: О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва; 20 August 1909 – 13 December 1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion.
Career
Rubtsova won the Soviet Women's Championship four times (1927, 1931, 1937 and 1948). She was second in the Women's World Chess Championship 1949–50, a point behind Lyudmila Rudenko. She won the title in 1956, finishing ahead of Rudenko and Elisaveta Bykova in a tournament. Rubtsova lost it to Bykova in a match in 1958.
In 1957, Rubtsova took part in the inaugural Women's Chess Olympiad in Emmen, the Netherlands, as a member of the USSR team, along with Kira Zvorykina. Soviet Union won the gold medal.
FIDE awarded her the titles of Woman International Master (WIM) in 1950, International Master (IM) in 1956, and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 1976.[1] In 1952 she was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the URSS.[2]
Rubtsova also played correspondence chess, and became the first women's world correspondence chess champion in 1972. She finished second in the next championship, only losing the title to Lora Jakovleva on tie-break, and fifth in the one after that. As of today, she remains the only player, male or female, to become world champion in both over-the-board and correspondence chess.
Personal life
Rubtsova graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. She was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.[3]
References
- ^ Di Felice, Gino (2017-11-22). Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016. McFarland. p. 279. ISBN 9781476671321.
- ^ "Рабинович". people.bmstu.ru (in Russian). Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
- ^ "МОГУЧЕЕ ТРИО ЧЕМПИОНОК". e3e5.com (in Russian). 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
External links
- Olga Rubtsova player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Olga Rubtsova team chess record at Olimpbase.org
- 1909 births
- 1994 deaths
- Chess International Masters
- Chess woman grandmasters
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Sportspeople from Moscow
- Soviet female chess players
- Women's world chess champions
- World Correspondence Chess Champions
- Russian female chess players
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
- 20th-century chess players