Photograph of Eva Ladanyike-Karakas and Ruzena Sucha-Dobiasova
Author: Ladanyike-Karakas, Eva (1922-1995) and Ruzena Sucha-Dobiasova (1907-1989)
Publisher: Ceskoslovensky Sach
Place: Riga
Photograph. Oblong duodecimo (4 3/4" x 7") picturing the contestants, Eva Ladanyike-Karakas and Ruzena Sucha-Dobiasova, in the Women's Interzonal Chess Tournament at Riga. Won by Sucha.
Ruzena Sucha shared 1st-2nd place in Women's World Chess Championship Zonal Tournament in Leipzig.
Ruzena Sucha-Dobiasova, was a Czech chess player who held the title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1954). She was a three-time winner of the Czechoslovak Women's Chess Championship (1938, 1951, 1954). From the end of the 1930s to the early 1960s, Sucha was one of the leading Czechoslovakian women's chess players. In 1943, she are the only woman who participated in Prague international chess tournament. Tournament won by Alexander Alekhine, second was Paul Keres, but Ruzena Sucha finished last with 3 draws out of 19 games. She won thirteen medals in the Czechoslovak women's chess championships: three golds (1938, 1951, 1954), three silver (1949, 1952, 1953) and seven bronze (1940, 1943, 1944, 1955, 1956, 1960, 1961). Sucha was awarded the FIDE International Women Master (WIM) title. In 1955, she participated at Women's World Chess Championship Candidates Tournament in Moscow when ranked 19th place.
Eva Karakas was a Hungarian chess grandmaster. She won the Hungarian Chess Championship in 1954, 1956, 1962, 1965-66 and 1975-76, and the World Senior Chess Championship in 1991, 1992 and 1994. She was a leading Hungarian player at the first three Women's Chess Olympiad held in 1957, 1963 and 1966.
Some creases with light edge wear else a very good piece.