Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova biography
Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova, (born Aug. 20, 1909, Moscow, Russia—died Dec. 13, 1994), Russian chess participant who was the ladies’s world champion (1956–58).
In 1936 Rubtsova graduated as an engineer from Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School (now Bauman Moscow State Technical University). By then she had already established herself as a premiere chess participant by profitable the primary U.S.S.R. Women’s Championship in 1927. She additionally gained that championship in 1931, 1937, and 1949. (During the Soviet period, chess was supported by the state for propaganda functions, so lots of the greatest gamers held positions that left them substantial time for research and play.)
The first extensively acknowledged, or official, girls’s world chess champion, Vera Menchik-Stevenson of England, died in 1944, leaving the title vacant. The chess governing physique, FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), organized a match in Moscow to find out a brand new champion within the winter of 1949–50. (This was organized together with a males’s match to find out Alexander Alekhine’s successor, since he additionally had died, in 1946, whereas holding the world champion title.) Rubtsova completed in second place, behind Ludmilla Rudenko of Ukraine. When Rubtsova gained the 1955 match in Moscow to find out a challenger for Elizaveta Bykova of Russia (who defeated Rudenko for the world title in 1953) by a mere half level, FIDE determined to prepare a three-way match in 1956 between Bykova, Rubtsova, and Rudenko, which was gained by Rubtsova, one-half level forward of Bykova. In 1958 Bykova was given a rematch with Rubtsova, whom she defeated by a rating of seven wins, 3 attracts, and 4 losses.
Rubtsova gained the primary Women’s World Correspondence Chess Championship in 1972; she is the one individual to develop into world champion in each over-the-board and correspondence play. In 1976, together with a number of older gamers, Rubtsova was awarded the newly created title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).