| Dec-25-04 | | vonKrolock: From Sloan's article: <"Ruth Cardoso was for many years the strongest woman chess player in South America. She was eight times Brazilian Woman's Champion. She played four times in the Woman's Interzonal Championship. She played in many World Chess Olympiads, playing first board for the Brazilian team. Her trainer was Grandmaster Pal Benko."> |
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| Jun-12-07 | | vonKrolock: A photo showing Ruth (right) playing Dora Rubio (left) from São Paulo in 1960 . thanks to Adaucto Nóbrega = brasilbase.com http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/foto05... |
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| Feb-07-11 | | BLarsen1967: <vonKrolock> The game in the photo is this one (below) -- Cardoso's opponent Dora Rubio,she's the 'Grand Old Woman' of Braz. chess,winning 4 national titles,the last in 1962. After that Ruth Cardoso took over. A third strong player in that era was Taya Efremoff. - As for the legendary Dora C. Rubio,she has not one single game in this database. [Event "zn w"]
[Site "Sao Paulo"]
[Date "1960.12.??"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Castro Rubio, Dora"]
[Black "Cardoso, Ruth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C90"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8.
h3 Na5 9. d3 c5 10. c3 O-O 11. Bc2 Nc6 12. d4 cxd4 13. cxd4 Qc7 14. Be3 Bb7
15. d5 Na5 16. Nbd2 Rac8 17. Rc1 Qb8 18. Qe2 Ba8 19. Bd3 Rc7 20. b4 Nb7 21.
Nf1 Rfc8 22. Qd2 Nh5 23. g4 Nf4 24. Bxf4 exf4 25. Nd4 Nd8 26. Qxf4 h6 27.
Qd2 Bg5 28. Ne3 Qa7 29. Ndf5 Qb6 30. Bf1 Kf8 31. Qb2 Bf6 32. Qb1 Be5 33.
Kg2 f6 34. Ng3 Nf7 35. Ne2 Ng5 36. Rxc7 Rxc7 37. Rc1 Rxc1 38. Qxc1 Bb7 39.
Qc2 Bd4 40. Nd1 Qa7 41. Qc7 Bb6 42. Qxd6+ Kg8 43. Nf4 Ba8 44. Ng6 Kh7 45.
Ne7 Qc7 46. Qxc7 Bxc7 47. Bd3 Kh8 48. Nf5 Nf7 49. Kf3 Ne5+ 50. Ke2 Nf7 51.
Nde3 Bb7 52. Nc2 Be5 53. Ke3 g5 54. Ncd4 Kg8 55. Nb3 Kf8 56. Nc5 Bc8 57.
Kd2 Ke8 58. a4 bxa4 59. Nxa4 Nd6 60. Nxd6+ Bxd6 61. Kc3 Bd7 62. Nb2 Be5+
63. Kb3 Bb5 64. Bxb5+ axb5 65. Nd1 Kd7 66. Nc3 Bd4 67. Nxb5 Bxf2 68. Kc4
Bb6 69. Nd4 Bxd4 70. Kxd4 Kd6 71. b5 Kc7 72. Kc5 1-0 |
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| Feb-07-11 | | vonKrolock: <BLarsen1967> Thanks for sharing this. A research on Rubio, Efremoff etc would surelly reveals more valuable material. |
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| Feb-14-11 | | BLarsen1967: According to Wiki Ruth Cardoso did participate in the Malaga tourney 1971,thus her game here vs Bisguier is a genuine one. Also in Malaga she faced her own husband,Pal Benko,in round 8 (although it is unclear if they were legally married) [Event "Malaga"]
[Site "Malaga"]
[Date "1971.??.??"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Benko, Pal C"]
[Black "Cardoso, Ruth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D36"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Be7 7. Qc2 Nbd7
8. Bd3 h6 9. Bh4 O-O 10. Nge2 Re8 11. f3 c5 12. O-O cxd4 13. exd4 Nb6 14.
b3 Bd7 15. a4 a5 16. Qb2 Rc8 17. Rac1 Nh5 18. Bf2 Bg5 19. Rce1 Nf4 20. Nxf4
Bxf4 21. Ne2 Bd6 22. Bg3 Bxg3 23. hxg3 Re3 24. Qd2 Qe7 25. Nf4 Re8 26. Qxe3
Qxe3+ 27. Rxe3 Rxe3 28. Kf2 Re8 29. Rc1 Bc6 30. Rc5 Ra8 31. Bb5 Nd7 32. Rc2
Bxb5 33. axb5 Nf6 34. Rc7 a4 35. bxa4 Rxa4 36. Ne2 Kf8 37. Rxb7 Ke8 38. Ke3
Rb4 39. g4 g5 40. Nc1 Nd7 41. Nd3 Rc4 42. Rxd7 1-0 |
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Jan-16-12
 | | gezafan: <vonKrolock: A photo showing Ruth (right) playing Dora Rubio (left) from São Paulo in 1960 . thanks to Adaucto Nóbrega = brasilbase.com http://www.brasilbase.pro.br/foto05>... Ruth wasn't bad looking! |
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| Feb-09-12 | | DoctorD: As you would expect from a student of Benko's, Cardoso tried her hand at endgame studies as well. Here is a game-like example. Cardoso, Ruth
Sinfonie Scacchistiche, 1981
3rd Honorable Mention
click for larger viewThe third through fifth moves, and the end of this composition are particularly delightful with the "backwards moves" by White, almost reminiscent of Reti - Black can queen also, but after White checks on g1, Black can either give up his queen and be mated in about 15 moves, or try to hold it with .. Kb2 and get mated even faster! 1. ♔g5 ♔e3 2. ♔f6 ♔d2 3. ♔e5 ♔c1 4. ♔d4 ♗g8 5.♗d3 ♗xa2 6. ♗c4 ♗xc4 7. ♔xc4 a2 8. g8=♕ a1=♕ 9. ♕g1+ ♔b2 10. ♕f2+ ♔c1 11. ♕e1+ ♔b2 12. ♕d2+ ♔b1 13. ♔b3! |
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| May-22-12 | | Yopo: Foi a primeira brasileira a conquistar o título de WMI em 1970. O lugar de nascimento pode ter sido Belmonte(BA). |
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| Mar-16-24 | | vonKrolock: Article online in "Correio" (Bahia State) :
Relate, amongst other things, that she was daughter of a big farmer, important cocoa producer, and of a German housewife. That the family was in Germany when the war broke out in Setember 1939, and that: quote <"The Volkl family, Ruth's maternal branch, was of Jewish origin. She was taken to the Nazi concentration camp, along with her mother. There, he would suffer from the barbarities of the Holocaust, carrying definitive consequences that would compromise one of his lungs. Because they had Brazilian citizenship, the German said, she and her mother would have managed, with extreme effort and the use of political relationships, to negotiate their liberation and immediate return to the tropics."> end quote More here: https://www.correio24horas.com.br/c... |
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| Mar-16-24 | | Granny O Doul: I'm pretty sure Benko and Cardoso were not legal spouses (or "spice", per Charlie Gordon's joke), but of course they were more than chess friends. She was a nice woman. Lombardy cried when she died, or so he said and why should he lie. |
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| Mar-16-24 | | vonKrolock: quote <"When Ruth Cardoso died in February 2000, an enigmatic story about her childhood came to light. During the wake, a German, a close relative, revealed to the guests the obscure reasons why the chess player had difficulty breathing during games. Born in 1934, still in early childhood, Ruth accompanied her parents as they moved suitcases and bags to Germany, with the prospect of a more prosperous life. The miscalculation was disastrous."> end quote And now follows the part translated in the previous post. The 'heavy breathing' would be a consequence of what was reported there... (* just recording this report here: there are still many details missing, chronology to understand (for instance, why the Volkl Cardoso were moving to what would be a dangerous place exactly at that moment ...) |
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