Naoko Takemoto
{{short description|Japanese chess player}}
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| birth_date = {{bya|1955}}
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| peakrating =1942 (March 2024)
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{{Nihongo|Naoko Takemoto|竹本尚子|Takemoto Naoko|born 1955}} is a Japanese chess player and sixteen-time Japanese Women's Chess Championship winner (1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994).
Biography
From the end of 1970s to the mid-1990s Naoko Takemoto was one of the leading female chess players in Japan. She seventeen in row times won Japanese Women's Chess Championships from 1979 to 1994.
Naoko Takemoto three times participated in Women's World Chess Championships South-East Asian Zonal tournaments:
- in 1987 in Jakarta she ranked in 6th place.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/ind-wwcc/wwc1988-zonalasiase.html|title=OlimpBase :: South-East Asian zonal 11 :: Jakarta 1987|website=www.olimpbase.org}}
- in 1993 in Jakarta she ranked in 12th place.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players-ind/c/cw86csyf-wwc1996.html|title=OlimpBase :: South-East Asian zonal 11 :: Jakarta 1987|website=www.olimpbase.org}}
- in 1995 in Genting Highlands she ranked in 10th place.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/ind-wwcc/wwc1999-zonal32.html|title=OlimpBase :: Zonal 3.2 (South-East Asia) :: Genting Highlands 1995|website=www.olimpbase.org}}
Naoko Takemoto played for Japan in the Women's Chess Olympiads:{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/cw86csyf.html|title=OlimpBase :: Women's Chess Olympiads :: Naoko Takemoto|website=www.olimpbase.org}}
- In 1984, at first board in the 26th Chess Olympiad (women) in Thessaloniki (+3, =2, -7),
- In 1986, at first board in the 27th Chess Olympiad (women) in Dubai (+4, =4, -5).
References
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External links
- {{fide|id=7001150}}
- {{chessgames player|id=27329}}
- {{365Chess.com player|Naoko_Takemoto}}
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Category:Japanese chess players
Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
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