Katarina Beskow

{{short description|Swedish chess player}}

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Anna Katarina Beskow or Anna Catharina Beskow[http://beskow.org.se/xyzslakttrad123/0001/1191.htm Entry on the family website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207230035/http://beskow.org.se/xyzslakttrad123/0001/1191.htm |date=7 February 2015 }}, retrieved on 8 February 2015 (2 February 1867 in StockholmAllan Werle in Schackkorrespondenten, 5/1983, as quoted in [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter126.html#9072._Icelandic_book_on_Karpov Chess Notes, item 9073] by Edward Winter, 28 January 2015 Henrik Malm Lindberg: Det tidiga damschacket och Sveriges okända VM-tvåa, in: Schackkultur, issue 49/2014. Mentioned by the author in a letter to Edward Winter, published in [http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html#9076._Reuben_Fine_and_the_Second_ Chess Notes, item 9078], 1 February 2015 11 August 1939 in Salzburg) was a Swedish chess master.

She was a four-time participant in the early Women's World Chess Championship tournaments held before World War II. She took second place behind Vera Menchik at the first Women's World Championship held in London in 1927, fourth place at the second Women's World Championship held in Hamburg in 1930, fourth place at the third Women's World Championship held in Prague in 1931, and 23rd place at the 1937 Women's World Championship held in Stockholm.Women's World Chess Championship: [http://www.ajedrezdeataque.com/11%20Ajedrez%20Femenino/Palmares/Cto_Mundo.htm Campeonato del Mundo Femenino] {{in lang|es}}