Mária Grosch (born 3 August 1954) is a
Hungarian chess player who holds the
FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1984).
Biography
From the late 1970s to the middle of the 1980s, Grosch was one of Hungary's leading women chess players. She won the three bronze medals in the
Hungarian Women's Chess Championships (1978, 1979, 1981). In 1986, she shared the first place in the Hungarian Women's Chess Championship, but lost
Mária Ivánka
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Ivánka was born in Budapest and played chess at ten years old for the first time an ...
an additional match for the title. In 1982, Grosch shared the 3rd place in the International Women's Chess tournament in
Dortmund
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, but in 1985 she took fourth place in the
Budapest International Women's Chess tournament. In 1984, Mária Grosch was awarded the FIDE
Woman International Master (WIM) title. In 1987, she participated in the World Chess Women's Championship Zonal tournament.
Grosch played for Hungary in the
Women's Chess Olympiads:
* In 1986, at first reserve board in the
27th Chess Olympiad (women) in
Dubai (+2, =1, -2) and won the team a silver medal.
In 1989, she finished her professional chess player career. Grosch is married to
grandmaster Zoltán Ribli.
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1954 births
Living people
Hungarian female chess players
Chess Woman International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors