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Lyudmila Rudenko
L Rudenko 
 

Number of games in database: 57
Years covered: 1946 to 1962
Overall record: +20 -25 =12 (45.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (5) 
    C70 C61 C95 C90 C68
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (4) 
    B56 B68 B73 B28
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   L Rudenko vs R M Bruce, 1946 1-0
   M T Mora Iturralde vs L Rudenko, 1950 0-1
   L Rudenko vs E Bykova, 1949 1-0
   L Rudenko vs F Heemskerk, 1949 1-0
   M Karff vs L Rudenko, 1950 0-1
   L Rudenko vs O Rubtsova, 1950 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Great Britain - Soviet Union Radio Match (1946)
   2nd Soviet Team Cup (1954)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   0 -- 000 temp 49/50 WWCC by crawfb5
   1949-50 World (women) chess championship by gauer


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LYUDMILA RUDENKO
(born Jul-27-1904, died Feb-26-1986, 81 years old) Russia
PRONUNCIATION:
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Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was born in Lubny*. Awarded the IM title and WIM title in 1950 and the WGM title in 1976, she was the 2nd Women's World Champion 1950-53. Early on, Peter Arsenievich Romanovsky coached her - followed by Alexander Kazimirovich Tolush and Grigory Levenfish after the war. She was also USSR Women's Champion in 1952. Rudenko died in 1986 (on the 26th of February, according to Russian Wikipedia).

*Wikipedia article: Lubny

Wikipedia article: Lyudmila Rudenko


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 page 1 of 3; games 1-25 of 57  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. R M Bruce vs L Rudenko 0-1301946Great Britain - Soviet Union Radio MatchE11 Bogo-Indian Defense
2. L Rudenko vs R M Bruce 1-0281946Great Britain - Soviet Union Radio MatchB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
3. G Gresser vs L Rudenko 1-0411949World Championship (Women) 1949/50C64 Ruy Lopez, Classical
4. L Rudenko vs E Bykova 1-0481949World Championship (Women) 1949/50E01 Catalan, Closed
5. E Keller-Herrmann vs L Rudenko ½-½441949World Championship (Women) 1949/50E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
6. L Rudenko vs F Heemskerk 1-0721949World Championship (Women) 1949/50E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
7. I Larsen vs L Rudenko  ½-½301949World Championship (Women) 1949/50E20 Nimzo-Indian
8. L Rudenko vs J Langos 1-0531949World Championship (Women) 1949/50D04 Queen's Pawn Game
9. M Karff vs L Rudenko 0-1341950World Championship (Women) 1949/50E17 Queen's Indian
10. L Rudenko vs V Borisenko  ½-½311950World Championship (Women) 1949/50C70 Ruy Lopez
11. E Tranmer vs L Rudenko ½-½641950World Championship (Women) 1949/50C41 Philidor Defense
12. M T Mora Iturralde vs L Rudenko 0-1361950World Championship (Women) 1949/50C41 Philidor Defense
13. L Rudenko vs O Rubtsova 1-0581950World Championship (Women) 1949/50A22 English
14. N Hruskova-Belska vs L Rudenko 0-1491950World Championship (Women) 1949/50C41 Philidor Defense
15. L Rudenko vs C Benini 1-0511950World Championship (Women) 1949/50D24 Queen's Gambit Accepted
16. R Hermanowa vs L Rudenko 0-1361950World Championship (Women) 1949/50E17 Queen's Indian
17. L Rudenko vs C Chaude de Silans  ½-½271950World Championship (Women) 1949/50C68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
18. L Rudenko vs J Gurfinkel  0-1341950Chigorin Team CupD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
19. L Rudenko vs E Bykova  1-0461953World Championship (Women)D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
20. E Bykova vs L Rudenko  1-0401953World Championship (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
21. L Rudenko vs E Bykova  0-1861953World Championship (Women)E76 King's Indian, Four Pawns Attack
22. L Rudenko vs E Bykova  0-1331953World Championship (Women)D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation)
23. E Bykova vs L Rudenko  1-0441953World Championship (Women)A07 King's Indian Attack
24. L Rudenko vs E Bykova  1-0311953World Championship (Women)C02 French, Advance
25. E Bykova vs L Rudenko 1-0601953World Championship (Women)B56 Sicilian
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Jul-26-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: Google are today celebrating her 114th birthday

This is their logo for today.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content...

Jul-27-18
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  OhioChessFan: Google's doodle brought me here also, Sally.
Jul-27-18  gregory2188: My wife brought me here! Oh doodle! Lol😄 Cheers everyone!
Jul-27-18  Monocle: Rudenko seems a rather obscure player for this sort of recognition, even in the context of women's chess.
Jul-27-18  TheFocus: Obscure except that she was the Womens' World Champion.
Jul-27-18
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  MissScarlett: Well, off the top of your head, can you name any female pole vault world champion?
Jul-27-18
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  WannaBe: Happy Birthday (114), and congratulation on being today's Google (home page) Doodle!!
Jul-27-18  morfishine: Rudenko's career was interrupted by WWII
Jul-27-18
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  tpstar: <Google's doodle brought me here also> And me also.

Nice graphic.

Jul-27-18
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  louispaulsen88888888: Never heard of her before today’s Google doodle! That IS a nice graphic.
Jul-27-18  TheFocus: <MissScarlett: Well, off the top of your head, can you name any female pole vault world champion?>

Do women pole vault? Is that a new thing? Is that safe or legal? Are the Asians also competing?

Maybe you meant pole dancing world champion instead? I can name the last three of them - Tiffany, Amber, and Bubbles.

Jul-27-18
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  Penguincw: Nona Gaprindashvili is the first woman to become GM, but Lyudmila Rudenko is the first woman to become IM.

I never heard of her either prior to today. I wondered if it was because she was influential outside of chess, that wanted her to be lost in history.

Jul-27-18
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  louispaulsen88888888: Ekaterini Stefanidi
Jul-27-18  nok: Isinbayeva

C'mon, that was easy.

Jul-28-18
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  Sally Simpson: 'Pole Vaulting'.

This wonderful game. V Kuznetsov vs G Gajewski, 2007 has the pun. 'Pole Vaulting.'

Jul-28-18  morfishine: <TheFocus:...Do women pole vault?> Of course they do, remember before the countries demise, East German women won Olympic gold in pole vaulting all the time.
Jul-28-18  zanzibar: Have to admit that I didn't recognize her name. Here's all the mention that Soltis gives her in his <Soviet Chess> book:

<Development (1950-1961): Beginning around 1950, women's chess was taken more seriously, particularly in Leningrad. A top trainer, Alexander Konstantinopolsky, devoted himself to women's chess from 1954 to 1976 and helped a generally older generation of women, in their late 40s (<Ludmilla Rudenko>, Elizaveta Bykova, Olga Rubtsova), to dominate Soviet events and eventually the world women's championship. <<>>>

<Soltis - Soviet Chess 1917-1991 p348 (emph added)>

Jul-28-18
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  OhioChessFan: Anyone else thinking, "I really should have heard of her before."?
Jul-28-18  zanzibar: <OCF> well, she was the successor to Menchik, and established/signaled the Soviet dominance to come, so I would say yes, at some level.

(Yes, note the qualification)

Reading the bio, it's interesting to also note the awarding of WGM in 1976, which seems long after her active career was over.

Jul-28-18
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  OhioChessFan: I have been thinking about this, and pretty much my knowledge of women's chess is:

1. Menchik
2. Polgar
3. All the physically attractive players of this generation.

Jul-28-18
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  OhioChessFan: FWIW, I am running a Rybka eval of a game just to make sure I am not missing anything. There is a great game in her repetoire that I think has a pretty interesting move that is maybe a Wednesday/Thursday POTD position. I'm pretty sure it's solid but I'll let the engine idiot proof my analysis.
Aug-02-18  oolalimk1: Rudenko helped to save the lives of thousands of children during the siege of Leningrad. That is why Google honored her.
Aug-02-18
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  HeMateMe: Rudenko was certainly muti talented:

<In World War II, Rudenko organized a train to evacuate children from the Siege of Leningrad. She described this as the most important accomplishment in her life.[2]

Rudenko became the swimming champion of Odessa in the 400-metre (1,300 ft) breaststroke. In 1925, she was swimming vice-champion of Ukraine (breaststroke).[2] She started a career as an economic planner for the Soviet Union, and chess became a hobby.[2][3][4] >

Jul-27-20
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  HeMateMe: wasn't there a female Rudenko who was a USSR fighter pilot during WWII? A somewhat uncovered part of WWII was the cadre of female fighter pilots for the USSR (I don't think the allies had any female pilots in any branch of the service). The Germans called them 'night witches' because these women flew the Russian night fighter planes.
Aug-18-20
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  Breunor: HeHateMe - I think that was Galina Rudenko.
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