Women's World Chess Championship 1930
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The 2nd Women's World Chess Championship
took place during the 3rd Chess Olympiad
in Hamburg
. The tournament was played as a double round-robin tournament
. Vera Menchik
successfully defended her title. The final results were as follows:
Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE....
took place during the 3rd Chess Olympiad
3rd Chess Olympiad
The 3rd Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 13 and July 27, 1930, in Hamburg, Germany...
in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
. The tournament was played as a double round-robin tournament
Round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament is a competition "in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn".-Terminology:...
. Vera Menchik
Vera Menchik
Vera Menchik was a British-Czech chess player who gained renown as the world's first women's chess champion. She also competed in chess tournaments with some of the world's leading male chess masters, defeating many of them, including future World Champion Max Euwe.The daughter of a Czech father...
successfully defended her title. The final results were as follows:
| # | Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | xx | ½ 1 | 0 1 | 1 1 | 1 1 | 6½ | |
| 2 | ½ 0 | xx | 1 0 | 1 1 | 1 1 | 5½ | |
| 3 | 1 0 | 0 1 | xx | 1 1 | 0 ½ | 4½ | |
| 4 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | xx | 1 1 | 2 | |
| 5 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 1 ½ | 0 0 | xx | 1½ |