Olga Rubtsova
Olga Rubtsova (
Russian:
Ольга Николаевна Рубцова;
August 20,
1909 -
December 13,
1994) was a
Soviet chess player and fourth
Women's World Chess Champion.
She won the USSR Women's Championship several times, and was second in the 1950
World Championship, 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 Bikova in a match in 1958.
Rubtsova also played
correspondence chess, and became first
Women's 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 2006, she remains the only player, male or female, to become World Champion in both over-the-board and correspondence chess.
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Some of Rubtsova's games at chessgames.com
