Olga Nikolaevna Rubtsova is an outstanding Soviet athlete, the fourth world chess champion in history, an international grandmaster, an ICCF international master among men and women, an international arbiter and an Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
Biography
Olga Rubtsova was born in the summer of 1909 in Moscow. Her father, Nikolai Nikolaevich, was a metallurgical scientist and a passionate chess fan, quite famous in the capital. After graduating from school, Olga followed in the footsteps of her father, entered the institute and received a diploma in foundry engineer.
But chess has become a part of her life since childhood. Olya played them at school, invariably winning competitions. At the age of 17, she became the winner of the 1926 youth tournament, which was organized by the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, and the very next year she won the very first chess championship among women in the USSR.
Sports career
For almost half a century, Olga Nikolaevna performed in various tournaments, becoming a four-time champion of the Soviet Union, three-time - Moscow. Olga came to the first post-war world chess competition, which took place in Moscow, as a five-time champion of the Soviet Union. Having become the world champion again in 1956, in the next world competition in 1958, she lost this honorary title to another Russian woman, Bykova.
Since the end of the sixties, the athlete took part in the so-called correspondence competitions. These battles lasted a long time, each next move came by regular mail. But love knows no boundaries, including a passion for an exciting intellectual game. In a fight that lasted 4 years, from 1968 to 1972, Rubtsova became the first world champion. The second correspondence championship ended in second place for Olga. She lost to Yakovleva by the worst coefficient.
Since 1964, Olga entered the sports international arbitration court, which helps to resolve all kinds of sports disputes and conflicts. Olga Nikolaevna's style of play, her original solutions and complex gambits were included not only in all textbooks for chess players, but also in the legends of world sports. In the same sixties, Rubtsova, together with Chudova, published the book "The Creativity of Soviet Chess Players", translated into many languages of the world.
Personal life and death
Olga's chosen one in his youth was the master of sports Isaac Mazel. Unfortunately, in 1945 he died of typhus. The second husband of the athlete was the famous coach and journalist Abram Polyak. In the fall of 1947, they had a daughter, Elena, who followed in the footsteps of her eminent parents and also became famous as an excellent chess player of an active positional style. Moreover, Lena became the fifth child of Olga Rubtsova. The rest also played chess and had categories, but only Elena seriously devoted herself to her sports career.
Olga Nikolaevna died in 1994 surrounded by a loving family and was buried at the Vvedenskoye cemetery in the capital.
