1956 World (women) chess championship

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1956 World (women) chess championship
Compiled by gauer

This tournament awaits the months and days of the rounds.

  Player                           1  2  3   Total
1 Olga Rubtsova    (Soviet Union)  -  4½ 5½   10
2 Elisabeth Bykova (Soviet Union)  3½ -  6     9½
3 Lyudmila Rudenko (Soviet Union)  2½ 2  -     4½

Held at Moscow, Russia from 22nd August - 23rd September after the 2nd (women's) Candidates tournament at Moscow in October of 1955 (the game A Ivanova vs O Rubtsova, 1955 belongs to that set; the first (women's) Candidates tournament consists of the M Bain vs V Borisenko, 1952 game, amongst others from October - November, 1952 - also at Moscow).

References: (1) Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 1956 , (2) Dates from Ken Whyld's <Chess: The records> 1986, Guinness (courtesy of look-up by User: crawfb5 ).

1
E Bykova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 43 moves, 1-0
2
O Rubtsova vs E Bykova, 1956
(C16) French, Winawer, 64 moves, 1/2-1/2
3
L Rudenko vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(D02) Queen's Pawn Game, 37 moves, 1/2-1/2
4
L Rudenko vs E Bykova, 1956
(A16) English, 56 moves, 1/2-1/2
5
E Bykova vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 53 moves, 1/2-1/2
6
O Rubtsova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(C46) Three Knights, 65 moves, 1-0
7
E Bykova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(C98) Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 37 moves, 1-0
8
O Rubtsova vs E Bykova, 1956
(C07) French, Tarrasch, 44 moves, 1/2-1/2
9
L Rudenko vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(A07) King's Indian Attack, 65 moves, 1-0
10
L Rudenko vs E Bykova, 1956
(A84) Dutch, 61 moves, 1/2-1/2
11
E Bykova vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(B30) Sicilian, 62 moves, 0-1
12
O Rubtsova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(B28) Sicilian, O'Kelly Variation, 42 moves, 1-0
13
E Bykova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(C63) Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense, 83 moves, 1-0
14
O Rubtsova vs E Bykova, 1956
(C13) French, 51 moves, 1/2-1/2
15
L Rudenko vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(A38) English, Symmetrical, 40 moves, 1-0
16
L Rudenko vs E Bykova, 1956
(C90) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 68 moves, 0-1
17
E Bykova vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(D13) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation, 59 moves, 1-0
18
O Rubtsova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(B07) Pirc, 41 moves, 1-0
19
E Bykova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(D38) Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation, 71 moves, 0-1
20
O Rubtsova vs E Bykova, 1956
(D35) Queen's Gambit Declined, 39 moves, 1-0
21
L Rudenko vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(B58) Sicilian, 38 moves, 0-1
22
L Rudenko vs E Bykova, 1956
(A16) English, 45 moves, 0-1
23
E Bykova vs O Rubtsova, 1956
(C11) French, 68 moves, 1/2-1/2
24
O Rubtsova vs L Rudenko, 1956
(B68) Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 9...Be7, 28 moves, 1-0
24 games

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