Ildikó Mádl

Ildikó Mádl
Ildikó Mádl at the 38th Chess Olympiad, Dresden 2008
Full name	Mádl Ildikó
Country	Hungary
Born	(1969-11-05) 5 November 1969 (age 47) Tapolca, Hungary
Title	International Master Woman Grandmaster
Peak rating	2426 (October 2001)

Ildikó Mádl (born 5 November 1969 in Tapolca) is a Hungarian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

Madl learned to play chess from her father. In 1978 she became a pupil of the chess school Mereszjev that helped to promote talented Hungarian children and teenagers.

In 1982 and 1983 she won the so-called Olympiad of Pioneers and the Hungarian Championships under-13 and under-15. Moreover, in 1982 she won the Hungarian Girls Championship U20 although she was only 13 years of age. At the Hungarian Women's Championship in 1982 she was third. In 1983 and 1984 she achieved her first international successes. In winter 1983/84 she won an international girl's tournament in Straubing and in 1984 she won the Cadet World Championship for Girls (U16) in Champigny-sur-Marne and the European Junior Chess Championship for girls U20 in Katowice. It was only consequent that Mádl was nominated for the Hungarian national team. Consequently, in her first Women's Chess Olympiad she scored 8 points from 11 games, receiving the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She achieved the required norms for the title of Woman Grandmaster in 1985 at a men's tournament in Szolnok and an international women's tournament in Jajce.

In 1986 she could repeat her success at the European Junior Championship which in that year took place in Băile Herculane. In the same year she became World Junior Girls Champion U20 in Vilnius, scoring 2 points ahead of Camilla Baginskaite and Svetlana Prudnikova. In May 1998 she was third at the Elo-tournament in Bechhofen, in January 1999 third at the ninth International Open in Augsburg-Göggingen. In January 2001 she won the International Brauhaus-Riegele-Tournament in Augsburg. In March of the same year she won without losing a single game the Tel Aviv Chess Festival, the first international women's tournament that ever took place in Israel. In January 2002 she won the 13th International Augsburg IM-Tournament. She won Hungarian Women's Championship in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1999.