By Kristel Satumbaga
Fil-Australian chess player Arianne Caoili, wife of Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian, passed away on Tuesday due to complications from a car accident she was involved with two weeks ago. She was 33.
Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian and Fil-Australian Woman International Master Arianne Caoili during their wedding day in 2017. (From Arianne Caoili’s Instagram)
Aronian announced this on his official Twitter account, saying: “I have no words to express the grievance over my wife Arianne’s death.”
“She was intelligent, hard working and joyous person that lived a beautiful life.”
Reports from Armenia said Caoili, a Woman International Master, was being treated at Yerevan’s Astighik Medical Center until the time of her death.
Two weeks ago, Caoili car crashed into a supporting column under the bridge near the intersection of Sebastia Street and Isakov Avenue near Lake Yerevan. She was rushed to the said hospital.
The chess community expressed their condolences on Aronian that include GMs Anish Giri, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and Pavel Eljanov, to name a few.
I have no words to express the grievance over my wife Arianne's death. She was intelligent , hard working and joyous person that lived a beautiful life…
I love you honeybun, sleep tight….
— Levon Aronian (@LevAronian) March 30, 2020
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Caoili, who was born in Manila, played for the Philippines in the Women’s Chess Olympiad in 1998 and 2000. In 2004, she transferred chess federations to represent Australia where she played in the same competition in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012.
Fil-Australian Woman International Master Arianne Caoili. (Photo from Arianne Caoili’s Twitter account)
She also won the Oceania Women’s Chess Championship in 2009.
She and Aronian wed in 2017.
Source: Manila Bulletin
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