Chantal Chaude de Silans
Number of games in database: 27
Years covered: 1939 to 1991
Overall record: +10 -12 =5 (46.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
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CHANTAL CHAUDE DE SILANS (born Mar-09-1919, died 2004) France [what is this?] Chantal Chaude de Silans was born on the 9th of March 1919 in Versailles, France. Awarded the WIM title in 1950 she was a Women's World Championship Challenger in 1949-50. She passed away in 2004.

page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 27  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. C Chaude de Silans vs Rossolimo ½-½ 34 1939 Paris FRA A54 Old Indian, Ukrainian Variation, 4.Nf3 2. C Chaude de Silans vs G Gresser   1-0 36 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS A52 Budapest Gambit 3. C Chaude de Silans vs G P Thibaut   0-1 51 1950 Dubrovnik olm D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 4. N Grushkova-Belska vs C Chaude de Silans   0-1 29 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 5. C Chaude de Silans vs M T Mora Iturralde   1-0 63 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS B45 Sicilian, Taimanov 6. C Chaude de Silans vs H Rossetto   0-1 40 1950 Dubrovnik olm E60 King's Indian Defense 7. C Chaude de Silans vs C Benini 0-1 37 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS D19 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 8. M Kupferstich vs C Chaude de Silans 1-0 34 1950 Dubrovnik olm A45 Queen's Pawn Game 9. R Germanova vs C Chaude de Silans   0-1 36 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS A13 English 10. C Chaude de Silans vs I Larsen 1-0 31 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS B18 Caro-Kann, Classical 11. G Primavera vs C Chaude de Silans   ½-½ 33 1950 Dubrovnik olm A18 English, Mikenas-Carls 12. L Rudenko vs C Chaude de Silans   ½-½ 27 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange 13. E Bykova vs C Chaude de Silans   1-0 50 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS B24 Sicilian, Closed 14. C Chaude de Silans vs Keller-Hermann 1-0 50 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS E49 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Botvinnik System 15. C Chaude de Silans vs H Kramer 1-0 50 1950 Dubrovnik olm A47 Queen's Indian 16. J Langos vs C Chaude de Silans   ½-½ 47 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS C05 French, Tarrasch 17. C Chaude de Silans vs E Tranmer 0-1 41 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS C07 French, Tarrasch 18. V Borisenko-Belova vs C Chaude de Silans   1-0 64 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 19. C Chaude de Silans vs M Karff   1-0 30 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS D35 Queen's Gambit Declined 20. K Palda vs C Chaude de Silans   1-0 37 1950 Dubrovnik olm C15 French, Winawer 21. F Heemskerk vs C Chaude de Silans   0-1 36 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 22. C Chaude de Silans vs O Rubtsova ½-½ 54 1950 Moscow, WCH Woman RUS D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 23. Grob vs C Chaude de Silans 0-1 25 1951 Zuerich m1 A03 Bird's Opening 24. L Lane vs C Chaude de Silans   1-0 41 1961 Vrnjacka Banja ct (Women) C77 Ruy Lopez 25. Bronstein vs C Chaude de Silans 1-0 32 1969 Friendly Game C35 King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 27

Mar-19-04    Honza Cervenka: Chessgames.com this is Chantal Chaude de Silans ("Shode de Silan" is a phonetic transliteration of her name from any Russian source, where it was writen in Cyrillic.). By the way, she was the first lady to play in men's olympiad. Jul-22-04    Honza Cervenka: "Women can't play chess because you have to keep quiet for five hours." Chantal Chaude de Silans Jul-22-04    checkpat: This lady was well-known in France where she was the president of the Chess club "Caissa" for many years. She passed away this year. Jul-22-04    Honza Cervenka: By the way, S. Tartakower dedicated her his book "100 modern games". She was born in 1919 but she have played actively still in late 1990s. It is a sad news that she died. Dec-26-04    Benzol: Chantal Chaude de Silans Born 9th March 1919 in Versailles WIM in 1950 she was a Challenger for the Women's World Title in 1949-50. It is sad that she has now passed away. Mar-09-07    Benzol: Happy Birthday Chantal. Sep-07-07    Karpova: A picture: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Mar-09-08    brankat: Happy Birthday Chantal! <Honza Cervenka> I heard the same quote You mentioned as being attributed to Mikhail Tal. <Karpova> I'd say, in this photo Ms.de Silans reminds of the young Ava Gardner with a touch of the looks of the young Queen Elisabeth II :-) Very pretty! Mar-09-09    fref: I think she translated in french the first edition of My 60 Memorable Games, by Bobby Fischer. Mar-09-09    vonKrolock: Madame Chaudé - bio in French, and two other photos, voilà: http://www.infres.enst.fr/~lobstein... http://www.chess-and-strategy.com/2... Mar-09-09    brankat: R.I.P. Madame Chaude de Silans. Mar-09-09    WhiteRook48: just 27 games?!

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