Women's World Chess Championship 1949–50

The World Chess Championship for women 1949/50, was discharged 19 December 1949 to January 18, 1950 in the Central Red Army Club in Moscow competition for the title of world chess champion. The tournament was played as a round robin tournament, so each player had to compete against each other. The main referee Wera Tschudowa acted from the Soviet Union.

After the first world champion Vera Menchik still officiating in World War II killed on June 27, 1944 during a rocket attack and since then no more world chess championship of the women had been held, it was in the winner Lyudmila Rudenko to the historic second world chess champion and the first from the Soviet Union. Her two direct successors occupied the third and second place here.

German participation

Prior to the event, there was controversy surrounding the German participation, against, among others, Erwin Voellmy and Vyacheslav Ragozin uttered. Voellmy said that 95 percent of the German players were former Nazis, while after Ragosin a " cleaning " in the Soviet zone had taken place, but Germany's participation should be moved to World Chess Championships women.

Edith Keller was also by previous victories against strong male opposition as the chess great hope of Germany and ultimately finished fifth behind the Soviet players.

Course

The results and Rudenko's world title was at the closing ceremony of Marcel Berman, vice-president of the World Chess Federation FIDE announced.

At the closing ceremony the four Soviet players of the title " Chess Champion of the USSR" awarded each.

After completion of the tournament, participants expressed very positive about the organization.