Today Google honors the celebration of Lyudmila Rudenko's 114th birthday, a famous chess player, through Google Doodle.
International chess champion was born on July 27, 1904 in the Lubny which is in the Poltava region (Imperial Russia) but now has become Ukraine. When she was 10 years old she had to took the conventional route by taking economic study and taking a more competitive sport: swimming. But her father taught her to play chess at the age of 10. Then, she had studied games that would be the decisive part of her life.
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Rudenko did not enter his first chess tournament until 1925, then she started playing competitive sports in the tournament when she moved to Moscow in 1925.
After grammar school, she moved to Odessa and took a degree in economics. At that time she was actually very serious with swimming sports, until in the end she proved as a champion of Odessa pool in a 400 m breaststroke. In 1925, she became the vice-champion of Ukraine (breaststroke). But her dream of becoming an economic planner for the Soviet Union, and chess will remain a hobby.
She moved to Leningrad after marrying Lev Davidovich Goldstein, a scientist. They had a son in 1931.
While in Leningrad, the atmosphere of war is very tense. The city had once been besieged by opponents. Rudenko is in charge of organizing children during the siege. The siege resulted in the deaths of over one million civilians and lasted nearly 900 days. To her, it was the darkest and most terrible memory, but it took her to courage.
Rudenko organizes trains to evacuate children from the Leningrad siege, according to witnesses the history of the siege of Leningard is one of the most destructive and terrifying battles of conflict.
While still in Leningrad as well, she found her way to playing chess professionally. She started training under master chess player Peter Romanovsky, and took the Leningrad women's championship on three occasions.
While she rose to the highest rank in women's chess in 1950 is probably his most famous achievement, Rudenko won many, many more of the award - and said during his lifetime that an example of courage and selflessness is his greatest memory and victory, not one even chess.
Rudenko then won the Moscow Women's Championship before winning the US Women's Champion, Olga Rubtsova. In 1950, she won victory at the first Women's Chess Championship, held after World War II. She became the second Women's Chess World Champion after Vera Menchik and two years later, she won the US Women's Championship.
Her greatest appreciation was when she received his International Master's degree in 1950 and in 1976, became Grandmaster of Women.
Rudenko died in 1986, and Google says its doodle in her honour “reimagines a focused Rudenko’s determination during the world championship game”.
Related to Google Doodle
Google Doodles are illustrations that appear in the Google logo on the search engine's homepage. The first time that a Google Doodle was used was in 1998, when Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin visited the 1998 Burning Man Festival.
To commemorate their trip, the founders drew a stick-man standing behind the second ‘o’ in the Google logo. Recent Google Doodles include Georges Lemaitre, Fanny Durack and Ludwig Sutterlin.
Initially, Doodles are not animated or hyperlinked-they are just pictures with hovering depicting the subject or expressing holiday greetings. Doodles increased both in frequency and complexity in the early 2010s. In January 2010, the first animated doodle awarded Sir Isaac Newton.
Source: Independent.co.uk, Forbes, TheSun, dailymail.co.uk