1st Women's Chess Olympiad

The 1st Women's Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE, took place between 2 and 21 September 1957, in Emmen, Netherlands.[1][2][3]

Kira Zvorykina and Olga Rubtsova, the winning Soviet Union team.
Ingrid Larsen, who played on the Danish team who finished 13th.

Results

Preliminaries

A total of 21 two-woman teams entered the competition and were divided into three preliminary groups of seven teams. The top three from each group advanced to Final A, the teams placed 4th–5th to Final B, and 6th–7th to Final C. All groups and finals were played as round-robin tournaments.

Group 1 was won by the Soviet Union, well ahead of Netherlands and Romania.

East Germany took first place in group 2, ahead of Bulgaria and Hungary.

Group 3 was won by Yugoslavia, ahead of West Germany and England.

Final
Final A
#CountryPlayersPointsMP
1 Soviet UnionOlga Rubtsova, Kira Zvorykina10½12
2 RomaniaMaria Pogorevici, Margareta Teodorescu10½10
3 East GermanyEdith Keller-Herrmann, Ursula Altrichter10
4 HungaryIrén Hönsch, Éva Kertész8½
5 BulgariaVenka Asenova, Antonia Ivanova8
6 YugoslaviaLidia Timofeeva, Tereza Štadler7½
7 EnglandElaine Pritchard, Eileen Betsy Tranmer7
8 West GermanyFriedl Rinder, Ruth Landmesser6
9 NetherlandsFenny Heemskerk, Catharina Roodzant, A. van der Veen4

Individual medals
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References
  1. "Emmen Olympiad 1957". www.icu.ie.
  2. "1958 Men & 1957 Women Chess Olympiad". www.chessgames.com.
  3. "The Encyclopaedia of Chess". St. Martin's Press. 11 September 1970 – via Google Books.
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