Arianne Caoili

Arianne Bo Caoili[1] (/ˈæriːɔːn kaʊˈiːliː/ kah-WEE-lee;[2] 22 December 1986 – 30 March 2020) was a Filipino-Australian chess player. She held the FIDE title of Woman International Master, won the Oceania women's chess championship in 2009 and competed in seven Women's Chess Olympiads. Outside of chess, she was a financial consultant,[3] and served as advisor to Armenian prime minister Karen Karapetyan.[4]

Arianne Caoili
Caoili in 2008
Full nameArianne Bo Caoili
CountryPhilippines (before 2004)
Australia (after 2004)
Born(1986-12-22)22 December 1986
Manila, Philippines
Died30 March 2020(2020-03-30) (aged 33)
Yerevan, Armenia
TitleWoman International Master (2001)
Peak rating2309 (October 2002)
Caoili (left) stomping grapes during the 3rd Artsakh Wine Festival in Togh village. (2016)

Chess

Born in Manila, Philippines, Caoili moved to Australia with her family in 1989.[5] She began playing chess at six years old. On 22 December 2000, Caoili won the Asian girls under 16 championship in Bagac, Philippines.[6] The following year, she scored 5½ points out of 9 in the Conca Della Presolana tournament in Italy.[7] Also in 2001, she was awarded the Woman FIDE Master and Woman International Master titles by FIDE. In the FIDE rating list of October 2002, Caoili achieved her peak rating of 2309.[8]

In 2004 Caoili transferred national federations to represent Australia.[9] In 2009, she won the London Chess Classic Women's Invitational tournament with a score of 8/9, two points ahead of the runner-up.[1] In the same year, Caoili won the Oceania women's zonal tournament[10] and as a result qualified to play in the Women's World Championship 2010. However, she did not appear in the first round in this competition.[11]

Caoili played for the Philippines in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 1998 and 2000. She represented Australia in the same competition in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012.[12]

Television appearances

Caoili was one of the celebrity dancers in the fifth Australian season of Dancing with the Stars.[13] Her professional dance partner was Carmelo Pizzino and she finished as the series' runner-up behind Anthony Koutoufides.

In an episode of the Australian TV show Deal or No Deal she won a car for the home competition entrant.[14]

Personal life

From 2008, Caoili was in a relationship with one of the world's top chess grandmasters, Levon Aronian.[15][16] They first met in 1996, at the World Youth Chess Championships in Las Palmas, and became friends in 2006, being introduced by their mutual friend Alex Wohl.[17] Aronian and Caoili became officially engaged in 2015[16] and were married on 30 September 2017 at the 13th-century Saghmosavank Monastery, with then Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and his wife Rita Sargsyan in attendance.[18][19]

She spoke English and Tagalog fluently, and had studied for a Ph.D. at a German university on "Russian foreign policy, especially its economic and business relations with Armenia on a state and individual level". She worked as a consultant for a global consultancy firm.[17] From 2013 until her death in 2020, Caoili lived and worked in Armenia.[20]

Caoili died on 30 March 2020 of injuries from a car crash into a bridge pillar in Yerevan, Armenia.[21][22][23]

References
  1. Saunders, John (19 December 2009). "London: Arianne wins Women's Invitational by two points". ChessBase. Retrieved 3 August 2011.
  2. "Central Link Light Rail Transit Project, Seattle, Tukwila and Seatac: Environmental Impact Statement". 1 April 1999 – via Google Books.
  3. Williams, Sean (29 July 2017). "A Chess Master with an Unpredictable Style and the Hopes of a Nation". The New Yorker.
  4. "Chess GM Aronian's wife appointed advisor to Prime Minister". Armenpress. 21 November 2017.
  5. Doggers, Peter. "Arianne Caoili 1986-2020". Chess.com. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  6. "Severino, Caoili cop Asian U-16 chess titles". philstar.com. 22 December 2000. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  7. 21 Conca Della Presolana. Tournament report FIDE. Retrieved 11 December 2015
  8. Di Felice, Gino (2018). Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016. McFarland & Company. p. 54. ISBN 978-1476633619.
  9. Player transfers in 2004. FIDE.
  10. Brion, Ian (29 June 2009). "Reigning supreme in Oceania". BusinessMirror. Retrieved 30 September 2016 – via Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information.
  11. Mihailov, Anton (7 December 2010). "Women's World Chess Championship Round 1". fide.com. Retrieved 30 September 2016.
  12. Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Chess Olympiads: Arianne Caoili". OlimpBase. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  13. Kalina, Paul (21 September 2006). "Champ has all the right moves". Theage.com.au. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  14. "Player Profiles - Chess - Arianne Caoili". Philippine Sports News and Updates. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2011.
  15. 2008 Pearl Spring Chess Tournament, Nanjing, China, Chessbase, 21 December 2008
  16. "Levon Aronian's girlfriend happy for engagement". armenpress.am. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  17. "I am not so stupid to play against Levon Aronian - Arianne Caoili". news.am. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
  18. "Горько. Президент Армении благословил Левона Ароняна и его избранницу (ФОТО, ВИДЕО)". chess-news.ru (in Russian). 30 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  19. Shah, Sagar (16 October 2017). "Aronian and Caoili tie the knot". Chess Base News. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  20. "Armenianization. Let the process begin", news.am, 25 October 2013
  21. Ghazanchyan, Siranush (31 March 2020). "Levon Aronian's wife Arianne Caoili dies days after road accident". Public Radio of Armenia. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
  22. Loeb McClain, Dylan (2 April 2020). "Arianne Caoili, Chess Master, is dead at 33". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  23. "PSC mourns Arianne Caoili's passing". ABS-CBN News. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
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