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Women's World Chess Championship 1931

The 3rd Women's World Chess Championship took place during the 4th Chess Olympiad in Prague. 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) - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
2 Paula Wolf-Kalmar (Austria) 0 0 - 0 1 0 1 1 1 4
3 Agnes Stevenson (England) 0 0 1 0 - 1 ½ 1 0
4 Katarina Beskow (Sweden) 0 0 1 0 0 ½ - 1 0
5 Wally Henschel (Germany) 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 - 2
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