Arianne Caoili

Arianne Caoili (2008)
Association	Philippines (until 2004) Australia (from 2004)
Born	December 22, 1986 Manila , Philippines
Died	March 30, 2020 Yerevan , Armenia
title	International Women's Champion (2002)
Best Elo rating	2309 (October 2002)

Arianne Caoili (born December 22, 1986 in Manila , Philippines , † March 30, 2020 in Yerevan , Armenia ) was an Australian chess player .

life and career

Tournament director Christian Goldschmidt and Caoili at the Dortmund Chess Days 2001

The daughter of an Australian- Dutch mother and a Filipino father learned to play chess at the age of six and began to take part in international tournaments at the age of nine. In 1999 Caoili won the Philippines' national women's championships. In 2000, she was also the winner of the under 16s at the Asian Championships in Bagac .

At the 2001 Dortmund Chess Festival, Caoili played in the Open A - which was won by the Hungarian Zoltán Varga - and was best lady among 109 participants. Among eleven men they took third place in 2002 with 8 points from 11 matches Australian Masters , a round-robin tournament of Category II . In the same year she received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). In June 2009 she won the Oceania Women's Zone Tournament with 8 points from 9 rounds .

Between 2000 and 2012 Caoili regularly took part in the Chess Olympiads : 2000 and 2002 for the Philippine women's national team on the first board; for the Australian women's team in 2004 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010 and 2012 .

Caoili had earned two norms for the women's grandmaster title . In the Australian women's rankings she was listed as inactive because she had not played any Elo rated games after the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee in January 2014 .

On September 30, 2017, Caoili married the Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronjan . The guest of honor at the wedding was the then Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan . On March 30, 2020, she died at the age of 33 as a result of a traffic accident in Yerevan .

Sample game

Caoili - Jepishin (Málaga, 2000)

	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H
8th									8th
7th									7th
6th									6th
5									5
4th									4th
3									3
2									2
1									1
	a	b	c	d	e	f	G	H

Position after 37. Qd1 – g4

At the International Open in Málaga, Caoili had a surprising success at the age of 13 against the Russian grandmaster Vladimir Jepishin , who was one of the best players in the world in 2000 with an Elo rating of 2,667. In the fourth round there was the position shown, in which Yepishin - playing with the black pieces - made a serious mistake: he and his queen beat the pawn on d4, which is covered by the white queen on g4; but he relied on the tactical joke 38.… Nc3 – e2 + ( knight fork ), which was supposed to win back the queen with an extra pawn. After 37 ... Qb6xd4 Caoili countered with the knight fork 38. Ne3 – f5 +, after which the black queen is lost. Yepishin gave up.

various

• Caoili held a doctorate. She wrote her work on Russian foreign policy - with special consideration of economic relations with Armenia - at the Hertie School in Berlin .
• Caoili has worked as a business consultant and journalist. She edited the Armenian newspaper Champord and was the managing director of 40 Degrees spirits distribution .
• Caoili danced in 2006 in the Australian dance competition show Dancing with the Stars (German format: Let's Dance ) as a celebrity at the side of the dancer Carmelo Pizzino; the couple finished second. She won a car for a viewer at home in the Australian edition of Deal or No Deal .
• Caoili released an EP called Hold On as Arianne on January 31, 2018 .
• Caoili went on a two-week bike tour from Turkey to Armenia in September 2018 to raise funds for the Children of Armenia charity .

literature

• Ian Rogers : Arianne Caoili (1987-2020). Olympic champion, multilingual and presidential advisor. In: Schach-Magazin 64 , 5/2020, pp. 48–49.

Web links

Commons : Arianne Caoili  - Collection of Images

• Replayable chess games by Arianne Caoili on 365Chess.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manila Bulletin , December 2000. ( Memento of March 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Dortmund Chess Days 2001 OPEN A on TeleSchach
3. ↑ Tournament details at the World Chess Federation FIDE
4. ↑ Chess-Results.com , accessed June 30, 2009
5. ↑ Arianne Caoili's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ chess-news.ru , September 30, 2017
7. ^ Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian's wife Arianne Caoili dies. news.am, accessed on March 30, 2020 . 
8. ↑ The game Caoili - Jepishin for replay
9. ↑ Bobby Ang: The Aronian year. bworldonline.com, December 5, 2017, accessed April 2, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Hertie School - Where we are - Arianne Caoili. hertie-school.org, accessed on April 2, 2020 (English). 
11. ↑ Player Profiles - Chess - Arianne Caoili. Philippine Sports News and Updates, July 16, 2011, accessed April 2, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Antonio Pereira: Arianne Caoili: A Bicycle Tour Against Poverty , Chessbase.com, September 18, 2018