✴️ About Lyudmila Rudenko
🔸 Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953. She was awarded the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman International Master in 1950, and Woman Grandmaster in 1976
🔸 Soviet ches Woman Grandmaster
🔸 Second women's world chess champion
▪️ Full name: Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: 27 July 1904
Lubny, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
▪️ Died: 4 March 1986 (aged 81)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: International Master (1950)
Woman Grandmaster (1976)
▪️ Women's World Champion: 1950–53
🔸 Born in Lubny, in the Poltava region of what is now Ukraine, Rudenko was taught by her father how to play chess at age 10, although at first she was more serious about swimming. After grammar school, she moved to Odessa and took a degree in economics. Rudenko became the swimming champion of Odessa in the 400 m breaststroke. In 1925, she was swimming vice-champion of Ukraine (breaststroke). She started a career as an economic planner for the Soviet Union, and chess became a hobby.
🔸 Rudenko began playing tournament chess in 1925 after a move to Moscow. In 1928, she won the Moscow women's championship. She then moved to Leningrad, where she met and married scientist Lev Davidovich Goldstein; in 1931 they had a son. In Leningrad in 1929 she began training with chess master Peter Romanovsky. She won the Leningrad women's championship three times.
🔸 In World War II, Rudenko organized a train to evacuate children from the Siege of Leningrad. She described this as the most important accomplishment in her life.
🔸 Women's World Champion Vera Menchik died in 1944 during an air raid. After the war, in the winter of 1949–1950, the World Chess Federation FIDE held a tournament in Moscow to determine the new women's champion. Sixteen women from twelve countries competed, with the four Soviet players taking the top four spots.
By now aged around 40, Rudenko won (scoring nine wins, one loss, and five draws).
She held the Women's World Championship title until losing it to Elisaveta Bykova in 1953 in the next championship cycle. Her score was 6–8 (five wins, seven losses, and two draws).
Rudenko's post-war chess trainers were Alexander Tolush and Grigory Levenfish.
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🔸 Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko was a Soviet chess player and the second women's world chess champion, from 1950 until 1953. She was awarded the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman International Master in 1950, and Woman Grandmaster in 1976
🔸 Soviet ches Woman Grandmaster
🔸 Second women's world chess champion
▪️ Full name: Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko
▪️ Country: Soviet Union
▪️ Born: 27 July 1904
Lubny, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine)
▪️ Died: 4 March 1986 (aged 81)
Leningrad, Soviet Union
▪️ Title: International Master (1950)
Woman Grandmaster (1976)
▪️ Women's World Champion: 1950–53
🔸 Born in Lubny, in the Poltava region of what is now Ukraine, Rudenko was taught by her father how to play chess at age 10, although at first she was more serious about swimming. After grammar school, she moved to Odessa and took a degree in economics. Rudenko became the swimming champion of Odessa in the 400 m breaststroke. In 1925, she was swimming vice-champion of Ukraine (breaststroke). She started a career as an economic planner for the Soviet Union, and chess became a hobby.
🔸 Rudenko began playing tournament chess in 1925 after a move to Moscow. In 1928, she won the Moscow women's championship. She then moved to Leningrad, where she met and married scientist Lev Davidovich Goldstein; in 1931 they had a son. In Leningrad in 1929 she began training with chess master Peter Romanovsky. She won the Leningrad women's championship three times.
🔸 In World War II, Rudenko organized a train to evacuate children from the Siege of Leningrad. She described this as the most important accomplishment in her life.
🔸 Women's World Champion Vera Menchik died in 1944 during an air raid. After the war, in the winter of 1949–1950, the World Chess Federation FIDE held a tournament in Moscow to determine the new women's champion. Sixteen women from twelve countries competed, with the four Soviet players taking the top four spots.
By now aged around 40, Rudenko won (scoring nine wins, one loss, and five draws).
She held the Women's World Championship title until losing it to Elisaveta Bykova in 1953 in the next championship cycle. Her score was 6–8 (five wins, seven losses, and two draws).
Rudenko's post-war chess trainers were Alexander Tolush and Grigory Levenfish.
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"The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn."
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17. Be4!
Vachier tries to exploit his slight lead in development.
17...c6 18. cxb6 axb6 19. Qb1! Bf5 20. Qxb6 Bxe4 21. Rxe4 +/-
Vachier tries to exploit his slight lead in development.
17...c6 18. cxb6 axb6 19. Qb1! Bf5 20. Qxb6 Bxe4 21. Rxe4 +/-
28. Ra3!
An excellent idea to penetrate into the enemy position.
28...Kg7 29. Rd3 Ne7 30. Nf3 Nd5 31. Ne5 Rb4 32. Rxb4 Nxb4 33. Rd7 Kg8 34. Nxf7 Ra5 35. Ng5 Rxc5 36.Rd8+ 1-0
An excellent idea to penetrate into the enemy position.
28...Kg7 29. Rd3 Ne7 30. Nf3 Nd5 31. Ne5 Rb4 32. Rxb4 Nxb4 33. Rd7 Kg8 34. Nxf7 Ra5 35. Ng5 Rxc5 36.Rd8+ 1-0
14.Bf3??
42-year-old Kazakh GM made an incomprehensible blunder.
14.Nc3 =
14...Q×b5 15.Q×b5 R×b5 16.c4 Rb4 -+
42-year-old Kazakh GM made an incomprehensible blunder.
14.Nc3 =
14...Q×b5 15.Q×b5 R×b5 16.c4 Rb4 -+
44. exf6!
A tactical blow by IM Nima Javanbakht.
44...Qxe2+ 45. Rf2 gxf6 46. Rxe2 Rxe2+ 47. Kg1 Ne5 48. Qf4 +-
A tactical blow by IM Nima Javanbakht.
44...Qxe2+ 45. Rf2 gxf6 46. Rxe2 Rxe2+ 47. Kg1 Ne5 48. Qf4 +-
60. g6??
White should have traded off his opponent's dangerous knight.
60. Bxe5 Rxe5 61. Qd4+- Black could resign here.
60... Rxc3+ 61. Kg2 Rc2+ 62. Kg3 Rd3+ 63.Kh4 Nf3+ 64. Kg3 Ne1+ 65. Kh4 Ng2+ 66. Kg5 Nxf4 67. Kxf4 Rc4+ 0-1
White should have traded off his opponent's dangerous knight.
60. Bxe5 Rxe5 61. Qd4+- Black could resign here.
60... Rxc3+ 61. Kg2 Rc2+ 62. Kg3 Rd3+ 63.Kh4 Nf3+ 64. Kg3 Ne1+ 65. Kh4 Ng2+ 66. Kg5 Nxf4 67. Kxf4 Rc4+ 0-1
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