Olga Rubtsova
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova |
| Born | 20 August 1909 |
| Died | 13 December 1994 (aged 85) Moscow, Russia |
| Chess career | |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Title |
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| Women's World Champion | 1956–1958 |
| ICCF World Champion | 1968–1972 (women) |
| FIDE rating | 2065 (January 1990) |
| ICCF rating | 2269 (July 1992) |
Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova (Russian: О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва; 20 August 1909 – 13 December 1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]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.[2] In 1952 she was awarded the title of Honoured Master of Sport of the URSS.[3]
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 Yakovleva 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
[edit | edit source]Rubtsova graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. She was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.[4] Her first husband was chess master Isaak Mazel 2nd (Also a chess master) Abram Polyak. Their daughter Elena Fatalibekova is Women's Chess Grandmaster.
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova player details at ICCF
- Olga Rubtsova player profile and games at Chessgames.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Olga Rubtsova Women's Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
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- 1909 births
- 1994 deaths
- 20th-century Russian chess players
- Chess players from Moscow
- Bauman Moscow State Technical University alumni
- Chess International Masters
- Chess Olympiad competitors
- Chess Woman Grandmasters
- Women's world chess champions
- World Correspondence Chess Champions
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Russian female chess players
- Soviet female chess players
- Soviet chess players
- Burials at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
- 20th-century Russian sportswomen