|
1966 Women's Chess Olympiad
The 3rd Women's Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE, took place in 1966 in Oberhausen, West Germany. Results A total of 14 two-woman teams entered the competition. It was played as a round-robin tournament. : Individual medals * Board 1: Nona Gaprindashvili 9 / 11 = 81.8% * Board 2: Elisabeta Polihroniade Elisabeta Polihroniade (; née Ionescu; 24 April 1935 – 23 January 2016) was a Romanian chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and an International Arbiter (1986). She was born in Bucharest. She won the Romanian Women's Cha ... 7½ / 9 = 83.3% * Reserve Board: Tatiana Zatulovskaya 8½/ 9 = 94.4% References External links3rd Women's Chess Olympiad: Oberhausen 1966OlimpBase {{Chess Olympiads Women's Chess Olympiads Olympiad w3 Chess Olympiad w3 Olympiad w3 Chess Olympiad w3 October 1966 sports events in Europe November 1966 sports events in Europe Sport in Oberhausen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a former Soviet Union, Soviet and Georgia (country), Georgian chess player, and the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster in 1978. She was the fifth women's world chess champion (1962–1978). Career In 1961, aged 20, Gaprindashvili won the fourth women's Candidates Tournament, setting up a title match against world champion Elisaveta Bykova. She won the match easily, with a final score of 9-2 (+7−0=4), and went on to defend her title successfully four times: three times against Alla Kushnir (1965: 10–6; 1969: 12–7; 1972: 12–11) and once against Nana Alexandria (1975: 9–4). She finally lost her crown in 1978 to another Georgian, 17-year-old Maia Chiburdanidze, by a score of 6½–8½ (+2−4=9). Gaprindashvili played for the Soviet Union in the Women's Chess Olympiads of 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corry Vreeken
Maria Cornelia Vreeken (born 22 December 1928), née Corry Bouwman, also Corry Vreeken-Bouwman, is a Dutch chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1987). She is a five-time winner of the Dutch Women's Chess Championship (1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1970). Biography In the 1960s and 1970s, Corry Vreeken was one of the leading Dutch women's chess players. She is five time Dutch Women's Chess Champion: 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966 and 1970, and participated in many international chess tournaments. Her best results were in Emmen (1962), shared 1st - 3rd place in Beverwijk (1968) and won zonal tournament in Biel/Bienne (1980). Corry Vreeken two times participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments: * In 1971, at Interzonal Tournament in Ohrid ranked 14th place; * In 1976, at Interzonal Tournament in Rozendaal ranked 10th place. Corry Vreeken played for Netherlands in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1963, at first board in the 2nd Chess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowena Mary Bruce
Rowena Mary Bruce (15 May 1919 – 24 September 1999), née Dew, was an English chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1951). She was an eleven-time winner of the British Women's Chess Championship (1937, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1967 and 1969). She has won the tournament the most. Biography From the end of the 1930s to the end of the 1960s, she was one of England's strongest and most well-known female chess players. In 1935, she won the FIDE World Girls Championship. Rowena Mary Bruce won the British Women's Chess Championship eleven times: 1937, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1967 and 1969 (both last times shared 1st place with Dinah Margaret Norman). In 1952, in Moscow, she participated in the Women's Candidates Tournament where she took 12th place. In 1951, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. On 21 June 1946, Bruce played (and lost) a "radio chess" match against Lyudmila Rudenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Sunnucks
Patricia Anne Sunnucks (21 February 1927 – 22 November 2014) was an author and three-times British Women's Chess Champion (1957, 1958, 1964). During her chess career she was always known as Anne Sunnucks. She was educated at Wycombe Abbey School, Buckinghamshire. Although she learned how to play chess at the age of 8, she did not play seriously until the age of 21, when she joined the same chess club as Imre König, who became her tutor. By finishing tied for second place in the 1953 British Women's Championship she became one of three British representatives in the 1954 Western European Zonal. Sunnucks earned the Woman International Master title by placing second in the 1954 Western European Zonal. Although this result qualified her to play in the next event in the Women's World Championship sequence, she was a major in the Women's Royal Army Corps and the authorities would not allow her to travel to the USSR where the 1955 Women's Candidates tournament was being held. Sunn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonina Dragašević
Antonina Dragašević ( sr, Антонина Драгашевић; born 25 March 1948), née Antonina Georgieva ( bg, Антонина Георгиева), is a Bulgarian and Serbian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1972). She was a four-time winner of the Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship (1968, 1970, 1971, 1977). Biography From the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s, she was one of the leading Bulgarian women's chess players. She won Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship four times: 1968, 1970, 1971 and 1977. The winner of many international chess tournaments, including second place in Plovdiv (1974) and won Belgrade (1975). In 1972, Antonina Dragašević was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. In 1978, she married a Montenegrin chess player Srdja Dragašević, with whom she has a dougher Dolja Dragašević and a son Vuko Dragašević, and moved to Yugoslavia. After marriage Dragašević representing Yugoslavia in ches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelina Trojanska
Evelina Trojanska ( bg, Евелина Троянска; 15 November 1929 – 2000) was a Bulgarian chess player. She was awarded the title of Woman International Master (WIM) by FIDE in 1972. Biography In the 1960s and the 1970s, Evelina Trojanska was one of the leading Bulgarian female chess players. She won the Bulgarian women's championship in 1973. Evelina Trojanska played for Bulgaria in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1966, a second board in the 3rd Women's Chess Olympiad in Oberhausen (+1, =1, -5), * In 1969, a second board in the 4th Women's Chess Olympiad in Lublin (+4, =2, -1). She was married to the Bulgarian writer Anton Donchev Anton Nikolov Donchev ( bg, Антон Николов Дончев, 14 September 1930 – 20 October 2022) was a Bulgarian writer of historical novels and screenwriter of Bulgarian historical drama films. In 2003 he was elected an academic at th .... She died in a car crash. References External links *Evelina Trojanskachess games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venka Asenova
Venka Asenova ( bg, Венка Асенова; 17 October 1930 – 29 December 1986) was a Bulgarian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986). She was a nine-time winner of the Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship (1953, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969). Biography From the 1950s to the 1970s, Venka Asenova was one of the leading Bulgarian women's chess players. She won Bulgarian Women's Chess Championship nine times: 1953, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966 and 1969. The winner of many international chess tournaments, including the 2nd place in Sofia (1967), shared the 1st-2nd place in Piotrków Trybunalski (1969), shared 2nd place in Wijk aan Zee (1970) and Piotrków Trybunalski (1970). In 1967, she participated in Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in Subotica, where shared 14th-15th place. Venka Asenova played for Bulgaria in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1957, at first board in the 1st Chess Olympiad (wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zsuzsa Verőci
Zsuzsa Verőci (; born February 19, 1949) is a Hungarian chess Woman International Master (1969) and Woman Grandmaster (1978). She has also been a FIDE International Arbiter since 1995. Her current FIDE rating is 2246 and her peak rating, from July 2003 to April 2004, was 2315. She was born February 19, 1949, in Budapest, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a .... Veroci has represented Hungary ten times in the Women's Chess Olympiad between 1966 and 1992, winning three individual silver medals and two individual bronze. References External links * 1949 births Living people Chess Woman Grandmasters Hungarian female chess players Hungarian chess players Chess arbiters Chess Olympiad competitors Chess players from Budapest {{Hungary-chess-bio-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyuláné Krizsán-Bilek
Gyuláné Krizsán-Bilek (born 24 January 1938), née Krizsán Gyuláné, also Edit Láng, Istvánné Bilek, is a Hungary, Hungarian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1965). She is a winner of the Hungarian Chess Championship, Hungarian Women's Chess Championship (1958). Biography From the end of the 1950s to the 1960s, she was one of the leading Hungarian women's chess players. She has won medals in the Hungarian Women's Chess Championships six times: gold (1958), silver (1961) and four bronzes (1955, 1959, 1965, 1966). In 1965, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. Gyuláné Krizsán-Bilek played for Hungary in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1963, at second board in the 2nd Women's Chess Olympiad, 2nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Split, Croatia, Split (+4, =4, -3), * In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Women's Chess Olympiad, 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen (+3, =4, -1) and won the individual silver medal, * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éva Karakas
Éva Karakas (née ''Fürst''; 15 February 1922 – 7 May 1995) was a Hungarian chess player. She won the Women's Hungarian Chess Championship in 1954, 1956, 1962, 1965–66 and 1975–76, and the Women's World Senior Chess Championship in 1991, 1992 and 1994. She played for the Hungarian national team in the first three editions of the Women's Chess Olympiad, held in 1957, 1963 and 1966. team chess record at Olimpbase.org Karakas competed in the Women's World Championship Candidates' Tournament in |
Marta Poláková
Marta Poláková (née Sedláčková; born 3 July 1934) is a Czech chess player, Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship medalist (1965). Biography Marta Poláková was Brno chess player. She was one of the leading Czechoslovakian women's chess players from 1955 to 1966. Marta Poláková was four time finalist of the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship: 1956 (10th place), 1961 (shared 4th-5th place), 1965 (shared 2nd-3rd place), 1966 (7th place). She was designer by profession. Marta Poláková played for Czechoslovakia in the Women's Chess Olympiad: * In 1966, at first reserve board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ... (+0, =1, -1). References 1934 births Living people Czechoslovak female chess players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Bellin
Jana Bellin (''née'' Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982. Bellin was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was the Czech Women's Champion in 1965 and 1967 under her maiden name of Malypetrová. After her marriage to William Hartston she moved to England in 1970 and won the British Women's Championship in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 (after a play-off), and 1979. She has fifteen appearances in the Women's Chess Olympiads, representing Czechoslovakia in 1966 and 1969 and England thirteen times from 1972 through 2006, seven times on first board. At the Olympiad she earned individual silver medals in 1966 and 1976, a team bronze medal in 1968 with the Czechoslovakian team, and a team silver in 1976 with England. Bellin is a medical doctor specialising in anaesthetics, and works in intensive care at Sandwell General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
