Arianne Caoili
{{Short description|Filipino-Australian chess player (1986–2020)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}}
{{Philippine name|Bo|Caoili}}
{{Infobox chess player
|image= Caoili arianne 20081121 olympiade dresden.jpg
|name = Arianne Caoili
|caption= Caoili in 2008
|birth_name = Arianne Bo Caoili
|country = Philippines (before 2004)
Australia (after 2004)
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1986|12|22}}
|birth_place = Manila, Philippines
|death_date = {{death date and age|2020|03|30|1986|12|22|df=yes}}
|death_place = Yerevan, Armenia
|title = Woman International Master (2001)
|peakrating = 2309 (October 2002)
}}
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Arianne Bo Caoili{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5996|title=London: Arianne wins Women's Invitational by two points|last=Saunders|first=John|authorlink=John Saunders (chess player)|date=19 December 2009|publisher=ChessBase|accessdate=3 August 2011}} ({{IPAc-en|'|ae|r|i:|O|n|_|k|au|'|i:|l|i:}} {{respell|kah|WEE|lee}};{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=giQ3AQAAMAAJ&q=caoili+pronounce&pg=RA4-PP23|title=Central Link Light Rail Transit Project, Seattle, Tukwila and Seatac: Environmental Impact Statement|date=1 April 1999|via=Google Books}} 22 December 1986 – 30 March 2020) was a Filipino and 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 and singer,{{cite magazine|url =https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/a-chess-master-with-an-unpredictable-style-and-the-hopes-of-a-nation|title =A Chess Master with an Unpredictable Style and the Hopes of a Nation|first =Sean|last =Williams|magazine =The New Yorker|date =29 July 2017}} and served as an advisor to Armenian prime minister Karen Karapetyan.{{cite web|url =https://armenpress.am/eng/news/913149|title =Chess GM Aronian's wife appointed advisor to Prime Minister|website =Armenpress|date =21 November 2017}}
Chess
Born in Manila, Philippines, Caoili moved to Australia with her family in 1989.{{cite web |last1=Doggers |first1=Peter |title=Arianne Caoili 1986-2020 |url=https://www.chess.com/news/view/arianne-caoili-obituary |website=Chess.com |date=31 March 2020 |accessdate=21 May 2020}} She began playing chess at six years old. On 22 December 2000, Caoili won the Asian girls under 16 championship in Bagac, Philippines.{{cite web|title=Severino, Caoili cop Asian U-16 chess titles|url=http://www.philstar.com/sports/109304/severino-caoili-cop-asian-u-16-chess-titles|website=philstar.com|accessdate=28 January 2016|date=22 December 2000}} The following year, she scored 5½ points out of 9 in the Conca Della Presolana tournament in Italy.[https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=19962 21 Conca Della Presolana. Tournament report] FIDE. Retrieved 11 December 2015 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.{{cite book|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=0dBHDwAAQBAJ|title =Chess International Titleholders, 1950-2016|first =Gino|last =Di Felice|publisher =McFarland & Company|date =2018|isbn = 978-1476633619|page =54}}
In 2002, Caoili finished 1st Equal at the Australian Masters International Tournament.{{Cite web|url=https://ratings.fide.com/report.phtml?event=22832&t=0|title=AUS Masters October 2002 Australia FIDE Chess Tournament report FIDE Rated Tournaments|website=International Chess Federation (FIDE)}} In 2004 she transferred national federations to represent Australia.[https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2004 Player transfers in 2004]. FIDE. 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. In the same year, Caoili won the Oceania women's zonal tournament{{Cite web|url=https://chessdailynews.com/reigning-supreme-in-oceania/|title=Reigning supreme in Oceania|last=Brion|first=Ian|date=29 June 2009|website=BusinessMirror|publisher=|access-date=30 September 2016|via=Susan Polgar Global Chess Daily News and Information}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://old.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/4914-womens-world-chess-championship-round-1.html|title=Women's World Chess Championship Round 1|last=Mihailov|first=Anton|date=7 December 2010|website=fide.com|publisher=|access-date=30 September 2016}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/3fh35vjf.html|title=Women's Chess Olympiads: Arianne Caoili|last=Bartelski|first=Wojciech|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=16 July 2011}}
Television appearances
Caoili was one of the celebrity dancers in the fifth Australian season of Dancing with the Stars.{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/tv--radio/champ-has-all-the-right-moves/2006/09/20/1158431719680.html |title=Champ has all the right moves |date=21 September 2006 |publisher=Theage.com.au |accessdate=1 April 2020 |first=Paul |last=Kalina}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.philippinesports.info/component/sobi2/?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=39&sobi2Id=220|title=Player Profiles - Chess - Arianne Caoili|publisher=Philippine Sports News and Updates|accessdate=16 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324153928/http://www.philippinesports.info/component/sobi2/?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=39&sobi2Id=220|archive-date=24 March 2012|url-status=dead}}
Personal life
From 2008, Caoili was in a relationship with one of the world's top chess grandmasters, Levon Aronian.[http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5103 2008 Pearl Spring Chess Tournament, Nanjing, China], Chessbase, 21 December 2008{{Cite news|url=https://armenpress.am/eng/news/794567/levon-aronians-girlfriend-happy-for-engagement.html|title=Levon Aronian's girlfriend happy for engagement|work=armenpress.am|access-date=21 September 2017}} They first met in 1996, at the World Youth Chess Championships in Menorca, and became friends in 2006, being introduced by their mutual friend Alex Wohl.{{cite news|title=I am not so stupid to play against Levon Aronian - Arianne Caoili|url=http://sport.news.am/eng/news/9869/i-am-not-so-stupid-to-play-against-levon-aronian---arianne-caoili.html|accessdate=9 March 2014|newspaper=news.am|date=22 August 2012}} Aronian and Caoili became officially engaged in 2015 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.{{Cite web|url=http://chess-news.ru/node/23794|title=Горько. Президент Армении благословил Левона Ароняна и его избранницу (ФОТО, ВИДЕО)|date=30 September 2017|website=chess-news.ru|language=ru|access-date=30 September 2017}}{{cite news |url=http://en.chessbase.com/post/and-they-lived-happily-ever-after |title=Aronian and Caoili tie the knot |publisher=Chess Base News |date=16 October 2017 |accessdate=1 April 2020 |first=Sagar |last=Shah}}
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. From 2013 until her death in 2020, Caoili lived and worked in Armenia.[http://news.am/eng/news/177782.html "Armenianization. Let the process begin"], news.am, 25 October 2013
Arianne released an EP in 2018, "Hold On", consisting of five tracks, "To Find You" "Summer Days", "On a String", "Hold On" and "Every Little Day". While Arianne did the vocals, the songwriter was Matt Magee. Her debut EP tracks are available on YouTube and Spotify.{{cite web | url=https://youtube.com/channel/UCUiWjyrp5iuLjXXe7ynhWLw | title=Arianne Caoili | website=YouTube }}
Caoili died on 30 March 2020 of injuries from a car crash into a bridge pillar that occurred on 15 March in Yerevan, Armenia.{{Cite news|url=https://en.armradio.am/2020/03/31/levon-aronians-wife-arianne-caoili-dies-days-after-road-accident |title=Levon Aronian's wife Arianne Caoili dies days after road accident |publisher=Public Radio of Armenia |date=31 March 2020 |accessdate=1 April 2020 |first=Siranush |last=Ghazanchyan}}{{cite web |title=Arianne Caoili, Chess Master, is dead at 33 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/obituaries/arianne-caoili-dead.html |work=The New York Times |first=Dylan |last=Loeb McClain |date=2020-04-02 |accessdate=2020-05-11}}{{cite web |title=PSC mourns Arianne Caoili's passing |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/04/01/20/psc-mourns-arianne-caoilis-passing |publisher=ABS-CBN News |date=2020-04-01 |accessdate=2020-05-11}}
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External links
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- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322015416/http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=5201179 |title=Arianne Caoili rating card at FIDE}}
- {{Chessgames.com player|70222}}
- [http://www.365chess.com/players/Arianne_Caoili Arianne Caoili] chess games at 365Chess.com
- [https://twitter.com/LevAronian/status/1244724856526180353 A tweet from Caoili's husband about her death]
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Category:Australian expatriate sportspeople in Armenia
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