Olga Rubtsova (August 20, 1909 - December 13, 1994) was a Soviet chess player. August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)  listen; tr. ... From left, a white king, black rook and queen, white pawn, black knight, and white bishop in Staunton chess pieces. ...

She won the USSR Women's Championship several times, and was second in the 1950 Women's World Championship, a point behind Ludmila Rudenko. She won the title in 1956, finishing ahead of Rudenko and Elizaveta Bykova in a match tournament, before losing it to Bikova in a match in 1958. The 1984 World Chess Championship was between Anatoly Karpov (left) and Garry Kasparov (right). ...

Rubtsova also played correspondence chess, and became first Women's Correspondence Chess Champion in 1972 (she also finished second in the next championship, only losing the title to Lora Jakovleva on tie-break, and fifth in the one after that). As of 2005, she remains the only player, male or female, to become World Champion in both over-the-board and correspondence chess. Correspondence chess is chess played by some sort of long-distance correspondence, usually through a Correspondence Chess Server or e-mail or the postal system. ...

External links

• Some of Rubtsova's games at chessgames.com (http://www.chessgames.com/player/olga_rubtsova.html)