- Lyudmila Rudenko
Infobox chess player
playername=Lyudmila Rudenko
caption=
birthname=Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko
country=UKR
datebirth=birth date|1904|7|27
placebirth=Lubny ,Poltava ,Ukraine ,Russian Empire
datedeath=death date and age|1986|3|4|1904|7|27
placedeath=
title=International Master ,Woman International Master
worldchampion=
womensworldchampion= 1950-1953
rating=
peakrating=Lyudmila Vladimirovna Rudenko (Russian: Людмила Владимировна Руденко; the transcription of her first name may vary in different sources - "Liudmila, Ljudmila, Ludmila...";
27 July 1904 —4 March 1986 ) was a Sovietchess player and the secondWomen's World Chess Champion from 1950 until 1953.Rudenko held theFIDE International Master andWoman International Master titles.Born in
Lubny in thePoltava region ofUkraine , in theRussian Empire , her father taught her to play chess at age 10 although at first she was more serious about swimming.After grammar school, she moved toOdessa and took a degree ineconomics .Rudenko became the Odessa swimming champion in the 400mbreaststroke .Her professional career would be as an economic planner for the Soviet Union, and chess would remain a hobby.She began playing tournament chess in 1925 after a move to
Moscow .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 Romanowski.She would not reach the peak of international women's chess until she was about 40 years old.In
World War II , Rudenko organized a train to evacuate children from theSiege of Leningrad .She would describe this as the most important thing she had accomplished in her life.Women's World ChampionVera Menchik died in 1944 during an air raid, so 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.Rudenko won, and held the Women's World Championship title until losing it toElisabeth Bykova in 1953 in the next championship cycle.After the war, Rudenko's chess trainers wereAlexander Tolush andGrigory Levenfish .References
*Graham, John (1987). "Women in Chess, Players of the Modern Age". McFarland & Company.
External links
* [http://www.goddesschess.com/patronessofchess/rudenko.html The Chess Patronesses - Ludmila Vladmirovna Rudenko]
* [http://www.e3e5.com/eng/petersburg/history/article.html?11 E. Bishard about L. Rudenko at St. Petersburg in Chess]
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