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| Jul-26-18 | | Sally Simpson: Google are today celebrating her 114th birthday This is their logo for today.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content... |
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Jul-27-18
 | | OhioChessFan: Google's doodle brought me here also, Sally. |
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Jul-27-18
 | | gregory2188: My wife brought me here! Oh doodle! Lol😄
Cheers everyone! |
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| Jul-27-18 | | Monocle: Rudenko seems a rather obscure player for this sort of recognition, even in the context of women's chess. |
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| Jul-27-18 | | TheFocus: Obscure except that she was the Womens' World Champion. |
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Jul-27-18
 | | MissScarlett: Well, off the top of your head, can you name any female pole vault world champion? |
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Jul-27-18
 | | WannaBe: Happy Birthday (114), and congratulation on being today's Google (home page) Doodle!! |
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| Jul-27-18 | | morfishine: Rudenko's career was interrupted by WWII |
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Jul-27-18
 | | tpstar: <Google's doodle brought me here also> And me also. Nice graphic. |
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Jul-27-18
| | louispaulsen88888888: Never heard of her before today’s Google doodle! That IS a nice graphic. |
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| 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. |
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Jul-27-18
 | | 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. |
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Jul-27-18
| | louispaulsen88888888: Ekaterini Stefanidi |
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| Jul-27-18 | | nok: Isinbayeva
C'mon, that was easy. |
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| Jul-28-18 | | Sally Simpson: 'Pole Vaulting'.
This wonderful game. V Kuznetsov vs G Gajewski, 2007 has the pun. 'Pole Vaulting.' |
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| 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. |
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| 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)> |
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Jul-28-18
| | OhioChessFan: Anyone else thinking, "I really should have heard of her before."? |
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| 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. |
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Jul-28-18
| | 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. |
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Jul-28-18
| | 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. |
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| 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. |
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Aug-02-18
 | | 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] > |
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Jul-27-20
| | 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. |
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Aug-18-20
 | | Breunor: HeHateMe - I think that was Galina Rudenko. |
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