Instead of her playing a match against the defending champion Elisabeth Bykova, FIDE decided that the championship would be decided between the top three female players in tournament play.
The championship tournament was held in Moscow in 1956. The three players each played 8-game mini-matches and the final finish was 1) Olga Rubtsova (10 pts.), 2) Elisabeta Bykova (9.5 pts.) and 3) Lyudmila Rudenko (4.5 pts.).
In winning the Candidates’ tournament Rubtsova lost games to Edith Keller-Herrmann of Germany and Larissa Volpert of the
USSR. She drew with Fennie Heemskerk of Holland, Vera
Jovanovic-Nedeljkovic of Yugoslavia, Olga Ignatieva and Valentina Belova of the USSR.
Second place finisher Volpert had been tied for the lead, but drew her last round game with Celia de Moschini of Argentina and so was overtaken by Rubtsova. 
Of the three U. S. representatives Gisela Kahn Gresser and Sonja Graf-Stevenson finished with even scores. Mona May Karff, the third US representative, never overcoming a bad start.
Today’s games features a tough battle between the tailender. Berna Carrasco Araya (December 19, 1914 – July 7, 2013) was a Chilean WIM (awarded in 1954). Although she had a bad result here at the 1939 Women's World Championship in Buenos Aires, she finished in third place behind Vera Menchik and Sonja Graf.
Ruzena Sucha (October 19,1907 – October 7, 1989), also known as Ruzena Sucha–Dobiasova, was a Czech WIM 9awarded in 1954) Sh won the Czechoslovak Women's Championship in 1938, 1951, and 1954.
From the end of the 1930s to the early 1960s, Sucha was one of the leading Czechoslovakian women's players. In 1943, she was the only woman who participated in Prague international tournament that was won by Alekhine ahead of Keres. There she finished last with 3 draws out of 19 games. In 1954, she shared 1st-2nd place in the Women's World Championship Zonal in Leipzig.
She was also known as chess organizer. In 1974, she was one of the founders of the chess club in Smichov, a district of Prague. After her death, the club regularly held a memorial tournament in her honor.
Please don’t be put off by the length of this game or the fact that it looks boring! The game itself is actually pretty well played by both sides and the ending is quite instructive.
Ruzena Sucha–Berna Carrasco1–0A04Women's Candidate Tmt, MoscowMoscow URS27.10.1955Stockfish 16
A30: Symmetrical English 1.f3 c5 2.c4 c6 3.g3 f6 4.d3 g6 5.g2 d5 6.a3 g7 7.c2 White's opening play is not very precise. She should have
castled here. dxc4 8.dxc4 xd1+ 9.xd1 g4 10.e1 0-0 10...f5 This is
a bit more precise because the N does not have an effective square to go to. 11.a3 11.e3 xe3 12.xe3 xb2 is practically decisive. 11...b4 12.h4 e6 13.xb7 b8 14.g2 e5 White's pieces are uncoordinated and she
will have difficulty completing her development. 11.h3 ge5 12.e3 b8 13.b1 b5 13...xf3+ was better, After 14.xf3 d4 white has problems
completing her development whereas black's pieces are actively positioned. 14.xe5 xe5 15.cxb5 xb5 16.f4 d7 17.f2 d4 18.d1 f6 19.g1 In this ending keeping the K in the center was the correct procedure.
Therefore, a better move would have been 19.Ke1. Now black's actively placed
pieces give her a small, but distinct advantage. f5 20.a1 xb2 21.xb2 xb2 22.xf5 gxf5 23.f3 c8 24.dc1 c4 25.c3 e4 This is a mistake that
allows white to equalize. Correct was 25...Ne8! and 26...Nd6 when the N is
well placed while white's B and Rs are quite passively positioned. 26.xe4 fxe4 The old saying that all double R enfgames are drawn seems to
hold true in this case. 27.f2 f5 28.a3 b3 29.ac1 xc3 30.xc3 h5
It would have been better to start heading for the center with 30...Kf7 30...f7 It's quite possible that black rejected this thinkig that 31.g4 was a
threat. Actually now 31.Ke3 keeps things equal. 31.g4 is is actually a
decisive error. e6 32.gxf5+ d5 This is even better than taking the f-Pawn.
32...xf5 33.e3 e5 34.fxe5 xe5 35.d2 f4 36.a4 h5 37.h4 a5
and there is no way white can hold the position. 33.e3 b8 34.c1 b2+ 35.e1 c5 36.d1 White is running out of moves. h2 31.e3 f7 32.d4 e6 33.xc4 Now that white has managed to get her K to the center and win the
one dangerous c-Pawn she has equalized...IF black keeps Rs on with 33...Rg8 or
33...Rd8+. Black needs the R in order to have active play. xc4+ 34.xc4 Black has completely misjudged the ending. White's better placed K
is enough to ensure the win. From here on Sucha's play is precise and
instructive. d6 Taking the opposition. After a few P moves black's K will
have to give way. 35.d4 e6 36.e3 a6 37.h4 a5 38.a4 c6 39.e5 c5 39...d7 40.f6 d6 41.g5 White's h-Pawn queens in 6 moves; it talkes black's
a-Pawn 8 mpves,. so it's hopeless for black. 40.xe6 c4 41.xf5 d3
Counting move before the Ps queen is 5 moves, but what is the result when both
sides hace a Q on the board?! 42.g5 xe3 43.f5 d3 44.f6 e3 45.f7 e2 46.f8 e1 Stockfish and Dragon by Komodo confidently announce that white is
clearly winning. The Konodo Human engine also gives white a decisive advantage,
but its numerical evaluation is not nearly so great as the other two. 47.f5+ c4 48.xh5 b3 49.f4 b4 Once again, after the excahnge of Qs simple
counting shows that both sides will have Qs on move 54, but white will have a
decisive two extra Ps. Therefore, even though she would still be lost black's
best hope would have been to keep the Qds on and play 49...Qe8+ and try to
keep checking. 50.xb4+ axb4 KP-KP 51.a5 c3 52.a6 b3 53.a7 b2 54.a8 b1 Against Qe4. KQ-KQ 55.f3+ d4 56.f4+ d5 57.g4 b2 58.h5
e6 59.f5+ e7 60.h6 e2+ 61.h3 e3 62.h7 h6+ The game
ended here, Black either lost on time or possibly the gamne was adjourned and
she resigned without resuming play. 62...h6+ 63.g4 g7+ 64.g5+ f7 65.xg7+ xg7 66.g5 xh7 67.f6 h8 68.g6 g8 69.g4 h8 70.h6 g8 71.g5 f7 72.g6+ g8 73.g7 f7 74.h7 1–0
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