Arianne Caoili, Chess Master, Is Dead at 33
https://news.yahoo.com/arianne-caoili-chess-master-dead-141818521.html
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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. Her peak FIDE rating (in 2002) was 2309, not quite grandmaster territory but close.
She was Filipino-Australian living in Armenia. She also had been a celeb dancer in the Australian version of Dancing With the Stars.
Her most-played opening with White was the King’s Indian Attack (A07) and she has three or four hundred games in the database I checked.
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