Hungarian Woman International Grandmaster (1978). Nine times Women Champion of Hungary between 1967 and 1986.
As a member of the national team she played in eight Olympiads between 1969 and 1986 where we was awarded eleven medals including an individual gold medal for her performance of 10/12 on first board at the Medellin Women Olympiad in 1974 Olympiad.
Best results: 1-3rd Vrnjacka Banja 1971, 1st, 1-4th, 2nd Wijk aan Zee 1971, 73 and 74, 1975, 2nd and 2-4th Budapest 1974, 77, 1-2nd Belgrade 1978.
Ivanka retired from international chess in 1991. The auhor ofSilver Queen – The Glamour and Shadow of Success (2002).
Hungarian Woman International Grandmaster (1978). Nine times Women Champion of Hungary between 1967 and 1986.