Károlyné Honfi
{{short description|Hungarian chess player}}
{{Infobox chess player
| name = Károlyné Honfi
| image =
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| country = {{HUN}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1933|4|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Budapest, Hungary
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|10|10|1933|4|16|df=y}}
| death_place = Budapest, Hungary
| title = Woman International Master (1969)
| peakrating =2095 (January 1987)
}}
Károlyné Honfi (16 April 1933 – 10 October 2010) was a Hungarian chess player who held the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1969). She was a winner of the Hungarian Women's Chess Championship (1961).
Biography
From the end of the 1950s to the end of the 1960s, Károlyné Honfi was one of the leading Hungarian women's chess players. She has won medals in the Hungarian Women's Chess Championships five times: gold (1962) and four silver (1959, 1963, 1964, 1968). In 1969, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title.
Károlyné Honfi played for Hungary in the Women's Chess Olympiad:{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/9dpfhtdf.html|title=Women's Chess Olympiads :: Károlyné Honfi|first=Wojciech|last=Bartelski|website=OlimpBase.org}}
- In 1969, at first reserve board in the 4th Chess Olympiad (women) in Lublin (+2, =1, -1) and won the team silver medal.
Also known as a correspondence chess player. Károlyné Honfi played for Hungary in 2nd Women's Correspondence Chess Olympiad (1980-1982).{{cite web|url=http://www.teleschach.de/bdf/olympiade.htm#iccf|title=ICCF Correspondence Chess Olympiad / Fernschach Olympiade|website=TeleSchach.de}} In 1977, she was awarded the ICCF International Women Correspondence Master title.
References
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External links
- {{365Chess.com player|Karolyne_Honfi}}
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Category:Chess players from Budapest
Category:Hungarian female chess players
Category:Chess Woman International Masters
Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:20th-century Hungarian chess players