# Elizabeth Shaughnessy

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{{short description|Irish chess player}}
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{{Infobox chess player
| image = Elizabeth Shaughnessy.jpg
| caption = Elizabeth Shaughnessy, Irish-American chess player and educator
| country = [Ireland](/source/Ireland) (until 2023)<br>[United States](/source/United_States) (since 2023)
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1937}}
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| peakrating = 1651 (March 2024)
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'''Elizabeth Shaughnessy''' (born 1937) is an [Irish](/source/Ireland)-American [chess](/source/chess) player and trainer who has regularly represented the national team at the [Chess Olympiad](/source/Chess_Olympiad). She has lived in [Berkeley](/source/Berkeley%2C_California), [California](/source/California), [United States](/source/United_States) for more than 30 years.

By profession, she is a trained [architect](/source/architect), having completed a 6-year course at the [National University of Ireland](/source/National_University_of_Ireland), University College Dublin. For several years she practiced architecture in [Belgrade](/source/Belgrade), [London](/source/London) and [Dublin](/source/Dublin), before marrying and moving to California.

Shaughnessy, a former Irish Women's Chess Champion, runs the [Berkeley Chess School](/source/Berkeley_Chess_School) which teaches chess in schools throughout the Bay Area and holds chess camps in the summer. She was twice elected to the Berkeley [School Board](/source/Board_of_education) and is a pioneer in chess activism in California State Curriculum.

==References==
*[http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/fame/index.htm California Chess Hall of Fame bio]
== External links ==
* [https://www.chess.com/blog/dmitriy_jangirov/ai-has-not-changed-chess Interview with Elizabeth Shaughnessy by Dmitry Dzhangirov on Chess.com]
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Category:Chess Olympiad competitors
Category:Alumni of the National University of Ireland
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