Naoko Takemoto | |
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Country | Japan |
Born | 1955 (age 68–69) |
Peak rating | 1903 (January 2007) |
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).
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:
Naoko Takemoto played for Japan in the Women's Chess Olympiads:[4]