Women's World Chess Championship Tournament Poster

The 8th Women's World Chess Championship took place from 20 December 1949 to 16 January 1950 in Moscow, USSR. Tournment line-up: Lyudmila Rudenko (Soviet Union), Olga Rubtsova (Soviet Union), Elisaveta Bykova (Soviet Union), Valentina Belova (Soviet Union), Edith Keller (East Germany), Eileen Betsy Tranmer (England), Chantal Chaudé de Silans (France), Fenny Heemskerk (Netherlands), Clarice Benini (Italy), Jozsa Langos (Hungary), María Teresa Mora (Cuba), Gisela Kahn Gresser (USA), Nina Grushkova-Belska (Czechoslovakia), Mona May Karff (USA), Ingrid Larsen (Denmark), Róża Germanova (Poland). The title had been vacant since the death of Vera Menchik in 1944. The round-robin tournament was won by Lyudmila Rudenko.