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Olga Rubtsova

1909 - 1994

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Olga Nikolayevna Rubtsova (Russian: О́льга Никола́евна Рубцо́ва; 20 August 1909 – 13 December 1994) was a Soviet chess player and the fourth women's world chess champion. In 2015, she was inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Rubtsova is the 49th most popular chess player (up from 65th in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,016th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Olga Rubtsova ranks 49 out of 461Before her are Lyudmila Rudenko, Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona, Alexander McDonnell, Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Jan Timman, and László Szabó. After her are Nigel Short, Gioachino Greco, Yuri Averbakh, Mir Sultan Khan, Henry Bird, and Lajos Portisch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Olga Rubtsova ranks 86Before her are Lennart Bernadotte, Golo Mann, Adalbert Deșu, Joseph Losey, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Eduard Wirths. After her are Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Porfirio Rubirosa, Adolfo López Mateos, Matti Järvinen, Albert R. Broccoli, and Isa Miranda. Among people deceased in 1994, Olga Rubtsova ranks 90Before her are Yevgeny Leonov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Golo Mann, Johannes Steinhoff, Juan Carlos Onetti, and Cesar Romero. After her are Manfred Wörner, Nikolai Ogarkov, Wilma Rudolph, Claude Akins, Cab Calloway, and Motoo Kimura.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Rubtsova ranks 643 out of 3,761Before her are Boris Sheremetev (1652), Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858), Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866), Alexander Grin (1880), Ulugh Muhammad (1405), and Pavel Alexandrov (1896). After her are Nikolay Gumilyov (1886), Valery Bryusov (1873), Alexandre Benois (1870), Nikolay Dobrolyubov (1836), Alexander Sokurov (1951), and Vladimir Minorsky (1877).

Among CHESS PLAYERS In Russia

Among chess players born in Russia, Olga Rubtsova ranks 10Before her are Anatoly Karpov (1951), Vasily Smyslov (1921), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Vera Menchik (1906), Mikhail Chigorin (1850), and Savielly Tartakower (1887). After her are Yuri Averbakh (1922), Andor Lilienthal (1911), Alexander Kotov (1913), Semyon Alapin (1856), Elisaveta Bykova (1913), and Vladimir Kramnik (1975).