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Women's World Chess Championship 1937 - Stockholm olympiad

The sixth Women's World Chess Championship took place during the 1937 Stockholm Olympiad. The final results were as follows:

Player Points
1 Vera Menchik (Czechoslovakia) 14
2 Clarice Benini (Italy) 10
3-4 Milda Lauberte (Latvia) 9
Sonja Graf (Germany) 9
5 Mary Bain (United States)
6-7 Mona May Karff (Palestine) 8
Nelly Fišerova (Czechoslovakia) 8
8-9 Ingeborg Andersson (Sweden)
Mary Gilchrist (Scotland)
10-16 Róża Herman (Poland) 7
Catharina Roodzant (Netherlands) 7
E. St. John (England) 7
Anna Andersson (Sweden) 7
Regina Gerlecka (Poland) 7
Clara Faragó (Hungary) 7
Edith Holloway (England) 7
17-20 Barbara Fleröw-Bułhak (Poland)
Gisela Harum (Austria)
Salome Reischer (Austria)
Olga Menchik (Czechoslovakia)
21-22 Florence Frankland Thomson (Scotland) 6
Ingrid Larsen (Denmark) 6
23 Katarina Beskow (Sweden)
24 A.M.S. O'Shannon (Ireland) 5
25 Ruth Bloch Nakkerud (Norway) 2
26 Elisabeth Mellbye (Norway) 1
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