1st Women's Chess Olympiad

Kira Zvorykina and Olga Rubtsova, the winning Soviet Union team.
Ingrid Larsen, who played on the Danish team who finished 13th.
Short news video on the Olympiad.

The 1st Women's Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE, took place between 2 and 21 September 1957, in Emmen, Netherlands.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Emmen Olympiad 1957". www.icu.ie.
  2. ^ "1958 Men & 1957 Women Chess Olympiad". www.chessgames.com.
  3. ^ "The Encyclopaedia of Chess". St. Martin's Press. 11 September 1970 – via Google Books.