Women's World Chess Championship 1939

The 7th Women's World Chess Championship took place during the 1939 Olympiad in Buenos Aires. The final results were as follows:[1][2][3][4]

Player1234567891011121314151617181920Points
1 Vera Menchik (United Kingdom)-1111½11½1111111111118
2 Sonja Graf (stateless)0-01011111111111111116
3 Berna Carrasco (Chile)01-0111111101½11111115½
4 Elfriede Rinder (Germany)001-1½11111½1111011115
5 Mona May Karff (United States)0100-11½1½111101111114
6 Milda Lauberte (Latvia)½00½0-1½½1½1½111½11½12
7 María Teresa Mora (Cuba)000000-1½011111½111111
8 Catharina Roodzant (Netherlands)0000½½0-½1½11½1½111111
9 Paulette Schwartzmann (France)½0000½½½-½½1½½½½01119
10 Blažena Janečková (Bohemia and Moravia)0000½010½-½111½011019
11 Ingrid Larsen (Denmark)00000½0½½½-½11100111
12 Dora Trepat de Navarro (Argentina)001½000000½-½1½½½1118
13 Ingeborg Andersson (Sweden)00000½00½00½-½½11111
14 Salome Reischer (Palestine)00½0000½½000½-1110117
15 María Berea de Montero (Argentina)00001000½½0½½0-1½1½17
16 Marianne Stoffels (Belgium)000000½½½11½000-11½½7
17 María A. de Vigil (Uruguay)00010½00101½00½0-0½16
18 Elena Raclauskienė (Lithuania)00000000000001001-½1
19 Ruth Bloch Nakkerud (Norway)00000000010000½½½½-03
20 Anabelle Lougheed (Canada)00000½000000000½010-2

As a result of her outspoken defiance of Hitler's government, Sonja Graf was taken off the list of German participants and played in the women's tournament under the flag of the fictitious country "Libre" ("free" in Spanish).[5]

Graf and Paulette Schwartzmann, along with many of the male players, chose to stay in South America, as World War II broke out during the tournament.

Due to the outbreak of war, there was no Women's World Chess Championship for the next ten years. Meanwhile, Menchik died in England in 1944 in a German air raid, so the next championship in 1949–50 had to determine a new champion.

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