Mária Ivánka-Budinsky
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| Mária Ivánka-Budinsky, 2004 |
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 Hungary
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| Born | Hungary February 23, 1950 |
| title | International Master of Women (1968) Grand Master of Women (1978) |
| Current Elo rating | 2260 (December 2019) |
| Best Elo rating | 2320 (January 1976 and July 1987) |
| Tab at the FIDE (English) | |
Mária Ivánka-Budinsky , née Ivánka , (born February 23, 1950 in Hungary ) is a Hungarian chess player .
Life
When she was fourteen years old, she won her first Hungarian championship in 1964. During her career she was Hungarian Women's Champion nine times. She was very encouraged by the altruistic Éva Karakas . She also regularly supported Mária with gifts and lent her money so that she could buy bus tickets. From 1979 she lived in America for 15 years, but was at home in Hungary for 2 to 3 months every summer. In 1970 she began a lifelong relationship with her husband, the IT specialist, Andrew Budinszky. The engagement took place in February 1972. She has three sons.
Because of her international success, she received the title of Women's Grand Master (WGM) from FIDE in 1978 .
Ivánka-Budinsky is listed as inactive by FIDE because she has not played a rated game since the European Women's Team Championship in Debrecen in November 1992 .
Interzonal tournaments
She played several women's interzonal tournaments . She achieved the best result with fifth place: 1971 in Ohrid and at the interzonal tournament in Tbilisi in 1976 . In 1979 she played in Alicante , in 1982 the interzonal tournament in Bad Kissingen , 1985 in Schelesnowodsk and 1987 in Tuzla .
National team
From the 1969 Chess Olympiad in Lublin to the 1986 Chess Olympiad in Dubai , she represented the Hungarian women's team at all eight chess Olympics (three times on the first board) in which her team took part (the 1976 Chess Olympiad in Haifa was boycotted by the Warsaw Pact states ).
She won a total of eleven medals, including six for the team (4 silver and 2 bronze) and five for individual results. It was gold for the best result on the first board at the 1974 Chess Olympiad in Medellín , silver medals at the 1978 Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires and 1980 in Valletta , and two bronze medals.
Ivánka-Budinsky took part in the first women's team championship in 1992.
More tournaments
Her greatest successes in international women's tournaments include: Shared first in Vrnjačka Banja 1970, first in Wijk aan Zee 1971, shared first in Vrnjačka Banja 1971, first in Brașov 1972, shared first in Wijk aan Zee 1973, shared second in Subotica 1976, first in Belgrade in 1977 and first in Zalaegerszeg in 1979.
Individual evidence
- ^ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 77
- ↑ World Chess Championship (Women) 1971 Ohrid Interzonal Tournament
- ↑ Mária Ivánka-Budinsky's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
- ↑ Mária Ivánka-Budinsky's results at the European Women's Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
swell
- W. Litmanowicz; J. Gizycki: chess A to Z . Warsaw 1986, p. 379
- In 2002 a book describing her life and career was published: Silver Queen , ISBN 963-9160-36-9 .
Web links
- Replayable chess games by Mária Ivánka-Budinsky on chessgames.com (English)
- Elo history up to 2001 on olimpbase.org (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ivánka-Budinsky, Mária |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ivánka, Mária (maiden name); Ivanka-Budinsky, Maria (FIDE) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian chess player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hungary |