Elizabeth Shaughnessy
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Elizabeth Shaughnessy is a citizen of Ireland who plays regularly on the Irish National Team in the World Chess Olympiad. She has resided in Berkeley, California, in the United States for more than 30 years.
Shaughnessy runs the Berkeley Chess School which teaches chess and hold chess camps in the Summer. Shaughnessy was twice elected to the Berkeley School Board.
In 2004, Shaughnessy was elected to the Executive Board of the United States Chess Federation in a special election for a one year term to replace a director who had resigned. Her one year on the board proved to be controversial, when she was accused of serving as a rubber-stamp to the decisions by President Beatriz Marinello to move the USCF headquarters to Crossville, Tennessee, and her endorsement of Natrol, a drug made by a company called "brainSpeed," that promises to improve chess play by enhancing the functioning of the user's brain.
Shaughnessy failed in her attempt to gain re-election in July 2005. Shortly thereafter she resigned as President of the California Chess Association.
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