Olga Rubtsova

Tags: Chess Player.

Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova (Russian: О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва; August 20 1909 – December 13 1994) was a Soviet chess player and fourth Women’s World Chess Champion.She won the Soviet Women’s Championship four times (1927 1931 1937 and 1948) and was second in the Women’s World Chess Championship 1949–50 a point behind Lyudmila Rudenko.

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birth date

1909-08-20, 1909-09-20

birth name

Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova

birth place

Moscow, Russian Empire

country

Soviet Union

death date

1994-12-13

death place

Moscow, Russia

title

Woman Grandmaster (1976)

year of world champion title

1956-1958