Michael Flannan Littleton (5 March 1938 – 21 August 2002) was an Irish
chess
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player, two-times
Irish Chess Championship
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winner (1962, 1965).
Chess player career
From the begin of 1960s to the mid-1970s, Michael Flannan Littleton was one of Ireland's leading chess players. He twice won the
Irish Chess Championship
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: 1962 (shared) and 1965. In 1966 in
The Hague
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Michael Flannan Littleton participated in FIDE World Chess Championship European Zonal tournament and ranked in 17th place. In 1969 in
Algarve
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he participated in FIDE World Chess Championship European Zonal tournament and shared 11th-14th place.
Michael Flannan Littleton played for Ireland in the
Chess Olympiad
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* In 1960, at second board in the
14th Chess Olympiad
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in
Leipzig
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* In 1968, at second board in the
18th Chess Olympiad
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in
Lugano
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* In 1970, at first board in the
19th Chess Olympiad
The 19th Chess Olympiad (), comprising an open team tournament as well as the annual Fédération Internationale des Échecs, FIDE congress, took place between September 5–27, 1970, in Siegen, West Germany.
The Soviet team with six Grandmaster ...
in
Siegen
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* In 1972, at third board in the
20th Chess Olympiad
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in
Skopje
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* In 1974, at second board in the
21st Chess Olympiad
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