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    Olga Rubtsova was a Soviet chess player who was the fourth Women's World Chess Champion. She won the Soviet Women's Championship four times and finished second in the 1949-50 Women's World Chess Championship. Rubtsova became the Women's World Chess Champion in 1956 after winning a match tournament. She held the title until 1958 when she lost it to Elisabeth Bykova. Rubtsova was also the first Women's World Correspondence Chess Champion in 1972.

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    Olga Rubtsova was a Soviet chess player who was the fourth Women's World Chess Champion. She won the Soviet Women's Championship four times and finished second in the 1949-50 Women's World Chess Championship. Rubtsova became the Women's World Chess Champion in 1956 after winning a match tournament. She held the title until 1958 when she lost it to Elisabeth Bykova. Rubtsova was also the first Women's World Correspondence Chess Champion in 1972.

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    Olga Rubtsova was a Soviet chess player who was the fourth Women's World Chess Champion. She won the Soviet Women's Championship four times and finished second in the 1949-50 Women's World Chess Championship. Rubtsova became the Women's World Chess Champion in 1956 after winning a match tournament. She held the title until 1958 when she lost it to Elisabeth Bykova. Rubtsova was also the first Women's World Correspondence Chess Champion in 1972.

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    Olga Rubtsova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Olga Rubtsova
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova (Russian:


    ; August 20, 1909 December 13, 1994) was a


    Soviet chess player and fourth Women's World Chess
    Champion.

    Olga Rubtsova

    She won the Soviet Women's Championship four times


    (1927, 1931, 1937 and 1948), and was second in the
    Women's World Chess Championship 194950, a point
    behind Lyudmila Rudenko. She won the title in 1956,
    finishing ahead of Rudenko and Elisabeth Bykova in a match
    tournament, before losing it to Bykova in a match in 1958.
    Rubtsova also played correspondence chess, and became
    first Women's World Correspondence Chess Champion in
    1972 (she also finished second in the next championship, only
    losing the title to Lora Jakovleva on tie-break, and fifth in the
    one after that). As of today, she remains the only player, male
    or female, to become World Champion in both over-theboard and correspondence chess.

    Full name

    Olga Nikolaevna
    Rubtsova

    External links

    Country

    Soviet Union

    Born

    August 20, 1909


    Moscow, Russian Empire

    Died

    December 13, 1994


    (aged 85)
    Moscow, Russia

    Title

    Woman Grandmaster
    (1976)

    Women's World
    Champion

    1956-1958

    Olga Rubtsova
    (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?
    pid=72239) player profile and games at
    Chessgames.com

    Preceded by
    Elisabeth Bykova

    Women's World Chess Champion


    19561958

    Succeeded by
    Elisabeth Bykova

    Preceded by
    none

    Women's World Correspondence Chess


    Champion
    19681972

    Succeeded by
    Lora Jakovleva

    Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olga_Rubtsova&oldid=609491878"


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    Russian chess biography stubs
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