Mária Ivánka
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Born | Budapest, Hungary | February 23, 1950
Spouse(s) | (m. 1972) |
Country | Hungary |
Title | Grandmaster (1978) |
Years active | 1961–1993 |
FIDE rating | [inactive] |
Peak rating | 2320 (January 1976) |
Peak ranking | No. 6 (January 1976) |
Mária Ivánka (born 23 February 1950) is a Hungarian chess Woman Grandmaster.
Ivánka was born in Budapest and played chess at ten years old for the first time and by the age of eleven won her very first chess tournament, the Championship for elementary school girls of Budapest. At the age of 17, in 1967 she won her first national title, the Hungarian Women Chess Championship. She would go on to win the national title a total of nine times. At the Chess Olympiads between 1969 and 1986 she collected six medals. She earned the title of Woman Grandmaster in 1978. In the seventies, during the Soviet-dominant chess era, she ranked as one of the world's top players. She defeated the reigning world champion, Nona Gaprindashvili twice in international tournaments. Beside her chess career, together with her husband and coach András Budinszky, she has raised three children. Her brother was actor and director of the Hungarian National Theatre, .
Significant results[]
- 4 Olympic silver medals (1969, 1978, 1980, 1986)
- 2 Olympic bronze medals (1972, 1982)
- 9 times Hungarian Champion
- 1 times European Co-champion
- 3 times Texas Champion
Awards[]
- State Gold Award for Sport
- Maróczy Award
Publications[]
- Győzelmünk a sakkolimpián (Our win in the Olympiad, 1979)
- Versenyfutás az aranyérmekért (Race for the gold medals, 1980)
- Ezüstvezér (Silver Queen, 2000)
- Silver Queen, 2002
References[]
- Magyar Sakkélet (Hungarian Chess Life)
- Chess Life
- Ki kicsoda (Who is Who, 2004) ISBN 963-86345-0-2
- Ezüstvezér (2000) ISBN 963-9160-20-2
- Silver Queen (2002) ISBN 963-9160-36-9
- Nádori László chief editor: Sportlexikon A-K – Sport, 1985 – ISBN 963 253 415 8
- 365chess.com
- World Chess Federation
External links[]
- Hungarian female chess players
- 1950 births
- Living people
- Chess woman grandmasters
- Sportspeople from Budapest