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World Chess Championship (Women) 1927-39 Title Tournaments

Unless otherwise noted, clippings are from 'International Championship Chess: A complete record of FIDE events' by B.M. Kazic (Batsford, 1974), Chapter 10, titled 'Women World Chess Champions; From Vera Menchik to Nona Gaprindashvili' (p.259-267).

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1927 London

The Kazic chapter starts,

The World Chess Federation (FIDE) held its fourth Congress in London in July 7, 1927, in coincidence with the first Men's Olympiad and the first Women's World Championship.

but the historical record is more complicated. The following image is a portion of a much longer note by Edward Winter on Chesshistory.com.

9074. Championship confusion

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1930 Hamburg

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1931 Prague

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1933 Folkestone

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1934 Rotterdam

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1935 Warsaw

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1937 Stockholm

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1937 Semmering

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1939 Buenos Aires

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Notes for the 1939 Buenos Aires PGN:

Subject: Buenos Aires 1939 From: A.W.N. Now, back to Buenos Aires 39. I created a crosstable in CB, from the PGN games, to compare with the only source I have (The book "International Championship Chess" by B.M.Kazic - page 263). Surprise, the book is wrong! It gives: 6. Lauberte ... 12.5 points, but the correct is 12.0 (check the sum) Trepat 0:0 Stoefels, should be 1/2-1/2, so the points are incorrect too!: Trepat 7.5, Stoeffels 6.5; should be: Trepat 8.0, Stoeffels 7.0 Raclauskiene 1:1 Lougheed , the correct is 1:0, but now the points are correct : Reclauskiene 3.5 Lougheed 2.0 (ok!) And Kazic gives Janecek instead of B. Janeckova. Do you have another source?

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Which players participated in which events?

	27T	30T	31T	33T	34M	35T	37T	37M	39T		Tot
Players	12	5	5	8	2	10	26	2	20
Andersson,A.							1				1
Andersson,I.							1		1		2
Bain							1				1
Benini							1				1
Berea									1		1
Beskow	1	1	1				1				4
Carrasco									1		1
Daunke	1										1
D'Autremont				1							1
Farago							1				1
Fisherova							1				1
Florow-Bulhak							1				1
Frigard	1										1
Gerlecka						1	1				2
Gilchrist				1			1				2
Graf					1		1	1	1		4
Harum	1			1		1	1				4
Henschel		1	1								2
Hermanowa						1	1				2
Holloway	1					1	1				3
Janacek									1		1
Karff							1		1		2
Kowalska						1					1
Larsen,I.							1		1		2
Lauberte							1		1		2
Lougheed									1		1
Mellbye							1				1
Menchik,O.						1	1				2
Menchik,V.	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1		9
Michell	1			1							2
Mora									1		1
Nakkerud							1		1		2
Price	1			1							2
Raclauskien									1		1
Reischer							1		1		2
Rinder									1		1
Roodzant							1		1		2
Schwartzmann				1					1		2
Shannon						1	1				2
Skjoensberg						1					1
St.John							1				1
Stevenson (nee Lawson)	1	1	1								3
Stirling	1										1
Stoeffels									1		1
Synnewaag	1										1
Thierry						1					1
Thomson,F.							1				1
Tonini				1							1
Trepat									1		1
Vigil									1		1
Wolf-Kalmar	1	1	1								3

Where differences exist between this table and the Kazic references, the data is taken from 'Guinness - Chess - The Records' by Ken Whyld (Guinness Books, 1986).

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