Arianne Caoili, Chess Master, Is Dead at 33

Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia’s prime minister, also offered condolences on his website. “Her memory,” he wrote, “will remain bright in the hearts of the Armenian people.”

Ms. Caoili’s first major international victory was in 2000, when she won the Asian Girls Under-16 Championship tournament in Bagac, the Philippines, on her 14th birthday. She went on to win the London Chess Classic Women’s Invitational in 2009 and, that same year, the Oceania Women’s Zonal, a qualifier for the world championship.

She played seven times in the Chess Olympiad, the game’s pre-eminent international team event. She represented her native Philippines in 1998 and 2000 and, after moving, represented Australia in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. She was awarded the title women’s international master by the World Chess Federation, the game’s governing body.

She had done some modeling while living in Australia, and, in 2006 she was a contestant on the Australian version of “Dancing With the Stars.” She and her partner, the dancer and choreographer Carmelo Pizzino, finished second.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/obituaries/arianne-caoili-dead.html