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1930 World (women) chess championship
Compiled by gauer
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under construction - on hold, pending the finding of dates and rounds, and majority of games

5-player, 8-rounds. Double-round round-robin tournament held in conjunction with the 1930 Olympiad in Hamburg.

Player 1 2 3 4 5 1 6½/8 Vera Menchik - ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 6½ 2 5½/8 Paula Kalmar-Wolf ½ 0 - 1 0 1 1 1 1 5½ 3 4½/8 Wally Henschel 1 0 0 1 - 1 1 0 ½ 4½ 4 2 /8 Katarina Beskow 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 1 2 5 1½/8 Sonja Graf-Stevenson 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 - 1½

The previous (also the first documented) and next women's championships Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 1927 and Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 1931 were in (July 18th-30th) 1927 (1) and 1931 respectively, but don't yet exist in this database as per 25 December 2013.

Sunnucks' book gives W Henschell's nationality as German representation.

References: (1) Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 1930 , (2) http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cserica/s... (3) http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (note 9074).

A Stevenson vs Menchik, 1930
(C77) Ruy Lopez, 40 moves, 0-1

1 game

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