Aileen Noonan (born 1950) is an Irish

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

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

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

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

Lublin Lublin is List of cities and towns in Poland, the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the centre of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin i ...

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

Skopje Skopje ( , ; ; , sq-definite, Shkupi) is the capital and largest city of North Macedonia. It lies in the northern part of the country, in the Skopje Basin, Skopje Valley along the Vardar River, and is the political, economic, and cultura ...

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

Medellín Medellín ( ; or ), officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín (), is the List of cities in Colombia, second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia Departme ...

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

Haifa Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...

(+2, =2, -5).

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