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 # Country Players Points MP 1 Soviet UnionOlga Rubtsova, Kira Zvorykina 10½ 12 2 RomaniaMaria Pogorevici, Margareta Teodorescu 10½ 10 3 East GermanyEdith Keller-Herrmann, Ursula Altrichter 10 4 HungaryIrén Hönsch, Éva Kertész 8½ 5 BulgariaVenka Asenova, Antonia Ivanova 8 6 YugoslaviaLidia Timofeeva, Tereza Štadler 7½ 7 EnglandElaine Pritchard, Eileen Betsy Tranmer 7 8 West GermanyFriedl Rinder, Ruth Landmesser 6 9 NetherlandsFenny Heemskerk, Catharina Roodzant, A. van der Veen 4
Final B # Country Points MP 10 United States8 9 11 Czechoslovakia8 8 12 Poland7½ 13 Denmark4½ 14= Ireland1 1 14= Scotland1 1
Individual medals
- Board 1:
Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska 9 / 11 = 71.8% - Board 2:
Kira Zvorykina 12 / 14 = 85.7%
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References
- "Emmen Olympiad 1957". www.icu.ie.
- "1958 Men & 1957 Women Chess Olympiad". www.chessgames.com.
- "The Encyclopaedia of Chess". St. Martin's Press. 11 September 1970 – via Google Books.
External links
- 1st Women's Chess Olympiad: Emmen 1957 OlimpBase
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