Aileen Noonan (born 1950) is an

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chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

player. In the 1970s, Noonan was one of Ireland's leading female chess players and won Irish Women's Chess Championship in 1971. Noonan played for Ireland in the

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s: * In 1969, at second board in the 4th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+2, =2, -5), * In 1972, at second board in the 5th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+2, =0, -7), * In 1974, at second board in the 6th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+2, =0, -5), * In 1976, at third board in the 7th Chess Olympiad (women) in

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(+2, =2, -5).

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* * 1950 births Living people Irish female chess players Chess Olympiad competitors 20th-century chess players {{Ireland-chess-bio-stub