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2nd Women's Chess Olympiad
The 2nd Women's Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE, took place between 22 September and 12 October 1963, in Split, SFR Yugoslavia. Results A total of 15 two-woman teams entered the competition. It was played as a round-robin tournament. : Individual medals * Board 1: Nona Gaprindashvili Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. Noted for her aggressive style of play, she was the women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978, and in 1978 ... 11½ / 12 = 95.8% * Board 2: Verica Nedeljković 12 / 12 = 100% * Reserve Board: Hendrika Timmer 6½/ 9 = 72.2% References External links2nd Women's Chess Olympiad: Split 1963OlimpBase {{Chess Olympiads Women's Chess Olympiads Olympiad w2 Chess Olympiad w2 Olympiad w2 Chess Olympiad w1 September 1963 sports events in Europe October 1963 sports events in Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nona Gaprindashvili
Nona Gaprindashvili ( ka, ნონა გაფრინდაშვილი; born 3 May 1941) is a Georgian chess Grandmaster. Noted for her aggressive style of play, she was the women's world chess champion from 1962 to 1978, and in 1978 was the first woman ever to be awarded the FIDE title of Grandmaster. She was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2013 and the Presidential Order of Excellence in 2015. Gaprindashvili began playing chess when she was five years old; in 1954, she moved to Tbilisi to train under Grandmasters. In 1962, she became women's world chess champion by a sweeping victory in a match against the incumbent, Elisaveta Bykova. This won her widespread acclaim throughout Georgia. She successfully defended her title on four occasions: three times against Alla Kushnir and once against Nana Alexandria. She narrowly lost her title to Maia Chiburdanidze in 1978. Gaprindashvili participated in men's tournaments during her career, including a perfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venka Asenova
Venka Asenova (; 17 October 1930 – 29 December 1986) was a Bulgarian chess player who held the title of FIDE titles, Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1986). She was a nine-time winner of the Bulgarian Chess Championship, 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 1969, 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 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedl Rinder
Friedl Rinder (née Benzinger) (November 20, 1905, in Schrobenhausen – June 3, 2001) was a German woman chess master. Rinder won the 1st Women's German championship at Stuttgart 1939. She took 4th place in the 7th Women's World Chess Championship (scoring 15/19) at Buenos Aires 1939 (Vera Menchik won). After World War II, she won the women's national (West German) championship four times (1949, 1955, 1956 and 1959). She tied for 12–13th in Candidates Tournament at Plovdiv 1959 (Kira Zvorykina won), and tied for 15–16th in Candidates Tournament at Vrnjacka Banja 1961 (Nona Gaprindashvili won). She played thrice for West Germany at first board in Women's Chess Olympiad: * 1st Women's Chess Olympiad, 1st Olympiad at Emmen, Netherlands, Emmen 1957 (+5 –4 =5); * 2nd Olympiad at Split (city), Split 1963 (+4 –3 =4); * 3rd Olympiad at Oberhausen 1966 (+1 –5 =4). Rinder was awarded the WIM title in 1957. She had a son, Gerd (who played chess to a good level and was Bavarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Bain
Mary Weiser Bain (August 8, 1904 – October 26, 1972) was an American chess master. Biography She was born in or near Ungvár, Kárpátalja, Hungary, which is now Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia oblast, Ukraine, into an assimilated Jewish family. Under the name Marie Weiserova, her 1921 New York immigration manifest lists her previous address as "Ushorod, Czecho-Sl." or Uzhhorod, which was then in Czechoslovakia, but it also lists her place of birth as "Iadobover" ic and the modern name of this town is unclear. She was a Women's World Chess Championship Challenger in 1937 and 1952 and the first American woman to represent the U.S. in an organized chess competition. She married Leslie Balogh Bain in 1926, an author, war correspondent and film director, and had two children with him. They divorced in 1948. In the 1950s, she ran a chess emporium and coffee house on 42nd Street in Manhattan. She died in New York. Mary Bain won the U.S. Women's Chess Championship in 1951. Bain was awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisela Kahn Gresser
Gisela Kahn Gresser (February 8, 1906 Detroit, Michigan – December 4, 2000)"Gisela Kahn Gresser", ''Chess Life'', March 2001, p. 40. was an American chess player. She dominated women's chess in the United States, winning the U.S. Women's Chess Championship nine times from 1944 to 1969. Chess career Gresser learned chess at a very late age. On a cruise from France to New York in the late 1930s, she borrowed a chess manual from a fellow passenger and taught herself how to play. By the end of the cruise, she was hooked.Elaine WooGisela Gresser; Chess Pioneer Won National Title 9 Times ''Los Angeles Times'', December 16, 2000. Retrieved on 2009-03-29. In 1938, she was a spectator at the first U.S. Women's Chess Championship tournament, organized by Caroline Marshall (wife of US Champion Frank Marshall) and held at the Rockefeller Center in New York City (won by Adele Rivero).Harkness, p. 284. She first played in the championship in 1940, and in 1944 she won it with a perfect sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirosława Litmanowicz
Mirosława Litmanowicz (née Kałęcka; 6 September 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Women's Chess Championship in 1968. She became a FIDE Woman International Master in 1967. Chess career Since the mid of 1950s to the start of 1970s, Litmanowicz was one of the leading Polish women chess player. From 1951 to 1972 she played 16 times in the Polish Women's Chess Championship's finals. Litmanowicz won ten medals: gold (1968), 5 silver (1957, 1958, 1964, 1969, 1972) and 2 bronze (1961, 1967). Also she won 7 gold medals (1953, 1956, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1972) in Polish Team Chess Championships. She played for Poland in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1957, at second board in the 1st Women's Chess Olympiad in Emmen (+6, =1, -4), * In 1963, won individual silver medal at first reserve board in the 2nd Women's Chess Olympiad in Split (+5, =3, -2), * In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Women's Chess Olympiad in Oberhausen (+1, =0, -6), * In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska
Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska (5 February 1931 – 29 November 2006) was a Polish chess player. She was awarded the titles Woman International Master in 1955 and Woman Grandmaster in 1984 by FIDE. Born in Lviv, she was nine-time Polish women's champion (1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1966, and 1969). Hołuj-Radzikowska tied for 15–16th places at the Moscow 1955 Women's Candidates Tournament, which was won by Olga Rubtsova. She tied for 7–8th at the Ohrid 1971 Interzonal Tournament, won by Nana Alexandria. She played for Poland five times in the Women's Chess Olympiad: * in 1957, at 1st board in the 1st Women's Chess Olympiad in Emmen, the Netherlands (+9−2=0); * in 1963, at 2nd board in the 2nd Women's Chess Olympiad in Split (+2−4=2); * in 1966, at 1st board in the 3rd Women's Chess Olympiad in Oberhausen (+3−6=2); * in 1969, at 1st board in the 4th Women's Chess Olympiad in Lublin (+3−3=4); * in 1972, at 1st board in the 5th Women's Chess Olympiad in Skop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov
Henryka (Henrijeta) Konarkowska-Sokolov (born 14 December 1938, in Inowrocław, Poland) is a Polish–Serbian chess master. Biography She was four times Women's Polish Champion (1958, 1960, 1963, and 1964) and two times Women's Yugoslav Champion (1967 and 1971). In 1961, Henryka Kornakowska took 11th in Vrnjačka Banja (Candidates Tournament, Nona Gaprindashvili won). In 1964, she tied for seventh/eighth place in Sukhumi (Candidates Tournament). In 1965, she married Vladimir Sokolov, and emigrated to Yugoslavia. In 1967, Henrijeta Konarkowska-Sokolov tied for eleventh/twelfth place in Subotica (Candidates Tournament, Alla Kushnir won). She played thrice in Women's Chess Olympiads (once for Poland and twice for Yugoslavia): * In 1963, at first board in second WChOlympiad in Split (+5 –4 =1); * In 1969, at second board in fourth WChOlympiad in Lublin (+5 –1 =3); * In 1972, at first reserve board in fifth WChOlympiad in Skopje (+2 –0 =5). She won two individual bronze meda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hendrika Timmer
Hendrika Timmer (6 October 1925 – 10 February 1994), also Hendrika Geertruida Timmer or Rie Timmer, was a Dutch chess player. She was a two-time winner of the Dutch Women's Chess Championship (1971, 1972). Biography From mid-1960s to mid-1970s, Hendrika Timmer was one of the leading Dutch women's chess players. She twice in a row won Dutch Women's Chess Championships (1971, 1972). Participant of many international chess tournaments. The best results have been achieved in the Beverwijk in 1960, when she took 3rd place, and Emmen in 1969, when she was in 2nd place. Timmer played for Netherlands in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1963, at first reserve board in the 2nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Split (+5, =3, -1) and won the individual gold medal, * In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen (+4, =2, -2) and won the individual silver medal, * In 1969, at second board in the 4th Chess Olympiad (women) in Lublin (+6, =2, -4), * In 1972, at first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fenny Heemskerk
Fenny Heemskerk (3 December 1919 in Amsterdam – 8 June 2007 in Amersfoort) was a Dutch chess player. Biography She won the female Dutch Chess Championship ten times (1937, 1939, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1961). Heemskerk won a match against Catharina Roodzant 4.5 : 0.5 in 1937, and lost a match to Sonja Graf 0 : 4 in 1939 in Amsterdam. She took eighth place in Women's World Chess Championship at Moscow 1950 (Lyudmila Rudenko won), tied for second/third in Candidates Tournament at Moscow 1952 (Elisabeth Bykova won), took ninth place in Candidates Tournament at Moscow 1955 ( Olga Rubtsova won), tied for 15–16th in Candidates Tournament at Vrnjacka Banja 1961 (Nona Gaprindashvili won). She played in the 1st Women's Chess Olympiad at Emmen 1957 – but had to withdraw after only two days upon learning her father had died. In 1989, at the age of 70 she participated in the Moscow GMA qualifiers alongside strong male Grandmasters. Heemskerk was awarded the Woma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Corry Vreeken
Maria Cornelia Vreeken (née Corry Bouwman; 22 December 1928 – 26 February 2025), also known as Corry Vreeken-Bouwman, was a Dutch chess player who held the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 1987). She was 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 was 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). 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. Vreeken played for Netherlands in the Women's Chess Olympiads: * In 1963, at first board in the ... [...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 Hungarian chess player who holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1965). She is a winner of the 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 Chess Olympiad (women) in Split (+4, =4, -3), * In 1966, at second board in the 3rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Oberhausen (+3, =4, -1) and won the individual silver medal, * In 1972, at first reserve board in the 5th Chess Olympiad (women) in Skopje (+2, =1, -1) and won the team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
