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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. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame.[1]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Nikolaevna and the family name is Rubtsova.

Olga Rubtsova
Full nameOlga Nikolaevna Rubtsova
CountrySoviet Union
Born(1909-08-20)20 August 1909
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died13 December 1994(1994-12-13) (aged 85)
Moscow, Russia
Title
  • FIDE International Master (1956)
  • FIDE Woman Grandmaster (1976)
  • ICCF Lady International Master (1975)
Women's World Champion1956–1958
ICCF World Champion1968–1972 (women)
FIDE rating2065 (January 1990)
ICCF rating2269 (July 1992)

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.

Rubtsova at the First women's Olympiad, Emmen 1957

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 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.[4]


References


  1. "Olga Rubtsova". World Chess Hall of Fame.
  2. Di Felice, Gino (22 November 2017). Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016. McFarland. p. 279. ISBN 9781476671321.
  3. "Рабинович". people.bmstu.ru (in Russian). Bauman Moscow State Technical University. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  4. "МОГУЧЕЕ ТРИО ЧЕМПИОНОК". e3e5.com (in Russian). 27 September 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2018.


Preceded by Women's World Chess Champion
1956–1958		 Succeeded by
Preceded by
none
 Ladies World Correspondence Chess Champion
1968–1972		 Succeeded by
Lora Jakovleva

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- [en] Olga Rubtsova

[ru] Рубцова, Ольга Николаевна

О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва (20 августа 1909, Москва, Российская империя — 13 декабря 1994, Москва, Россия) — советская шахматистка: четвёртая в истории чемпионка мира (1956—58), международный гроссмейстер (1976), международный мастер ИКЧФ среди мужчин (1973) и женщин (1975), международный арбитр (1964); заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1952); инженер-литейщик. Победительница I Всемирной шахматной олимпиады в составе команды СССР (1957). Четырёхкратная чемпионка СССР. Трёхкратная чемпионка Москвы.


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