Women's World Chess Championship 1949–50

The 8th Women's World Chess Championship took place in the winter of 1949–1950 in Moscow, Russia. It was won by Lyudmila Rudenko. The final results were as follows:

#	Player	Points
1	Lyudmila Rudenko (Soviet Union)	11½
2	Olga Rubtsova (Soviet Union)	10½
3	Valentina Borisenko (Soviet Union)	10
4	Elisabeth Bykova (Soviet Union)	10
5	Chantal Chaudé de Silans (France)	9½
6	Edith Keller-Herrmann (Germany)	9½
7	Eileen Betsy Tranmer (England)	9½
8	Fenny Heemskerk (Netherlands)	8
9	Clarice Benini (Italy)	7
10	Jozsa Langos (Hungary)	6
11	María Teresa Mora (Cuba)	6
12	Nina Grushkova-Belska (Czechoslovakia)	5
13	Gisela Kahn Gresser (USA)	5
14	Mona May Karff (USA)	5
15	Ingrid Larsen (Denmark)	4½
16	Roza Hermanova (Poland)	3

Women's World Chess Championships

FIDE	1927, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937 I, 1937 II, 1939 (Menchik) 1949–50 (Rudenko) 1953 (Bykova) 1956 (Rubtsova) 1958, 1959 (Bykova) 1962, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1975 (Gaprindashvili) 1978, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988 (Chiburdanidze) 1991, 1993 (Xie Jun) 1996 (Su. Polgar) 1999, 2000 (Xie Jun) 2001 (Zhu Chen) 2004 (Stefanova) 2006 (Xu Yuhua) 2008 (Kosteniuk) 2010, 2011 (Hou Yifan) 2012 2013

References

Sunnucks, Anne (1976). The Encyclopaedia of Chess (2nd Ed.). Hale. pp. 505–544. ISBN 0-7091-4697-3.