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Women's World Chess Championship 1930

The 2nd Women's World Chess Championship took place during the 3rd Chess Olympiad in Hamburg. The tournament was played as a double round-robin tournament. Vera Menchik successfully defended her title. The final results were as follows:

Player 1 2 3 4 5 Total
1 Vera Menchik (Czechoslovakia) - ½ 1 0 1 1 1 1 1
2 Paula Wolf-Kalmar (Austria) ½ 0 - 1 0 1 1 1 1
3 Wally Henschel (Germany) 1 0 0 1 - 1 1 0 ½
4 Katarina Beskow (Sweden) 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 1 1 2
5 Agnes Stevenson (England) 0 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 -
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