June 24, 2009 02:26pm
Chess queen Arianne Caoili dogged by controversy
Samantha Turnbull
June 24th, 2009
ARIANNE Caoili is no stranger to controversy and it has plagued her again — this time in chess.
The 22-year-old Gold Coaster who attends university in Canberra and Germany is back on the Coast for the Oceania Chess Championship at Twin Towns.
Caoili is now famous for her appearance on Channel 7’s Dancing With The Stars in 2006 in which she was accused by a judge of having professional dance training. She was also labelled a temptress after reports she was at the centre of a love triangle that ended in a dance floor punch-up in Italy.
Caoili said she had put those incidents behind her.
“I don’t like to talk about it,” she said.
“With every adventure there’s good and bad. I choose to ignore the bad.
“I learned a lot of things, but I’m young and there are lots more adventures ahead.”
What she didn’t mind talking about was the controversy surrounding her chess game this week against Australia’s number one woman player, Irina Berezina of Sydney.
The three-hour game was a draw and Caoili was not impressed.
“I’m not very happy,” she said.
“I was much better. Irina played passively.
“She offered me the draw and I thought I’d take it. I wish I didn’t take it.”
Berezina was also unhappy with the result.
“What can you do?
” Everyone wants to win,” she said.
“It’s tough playing such long games and playing them every day.”
The winner of the Oceania Championship will qualify for the World Cup to be held in November in Russia and Berezina and Caoili are both still in with a chance.
Tuesday was a rest day and play resumed yesterday and continues until tomorrow.
Chess fans can watch the action with live commentary on www.gardinerchess.com.
Source: http://www.goldcoast.com.au
She is very sexy. Aronian is a lucky guy.
“controversy surrounding her chess game this week against … Irina Berezina”
OK the game was drawn, and both players were unhappy with the result. But where is the controversy or scandal???
“I learned a lot of things, but I’m young and there are lots more adventures ahead.”
Translation: I am still a scandalous slut. Next time I will not be caught when I sleep around with other women’s men.
that is one frustrated chess translator fag there, envious of caoili.
you are one sorry soul.
As details emerged of the brawl at the World Chess Olympiad in Italy, the teenager’s mother yesterday revealed Caoili was romantically involved with Aronian. “I don’t know how serious it is but Aronian is a lovely gentleman and it (the brawl) would have been totally unprovoked,” Annette Caoili said. She knew the British fellow but she is young and pretty and a lot of young men e-mail her and text her.
Maybe he (Gormally) just had a bad day. Arianne is a beautiful young girl who wants to make her mark. She loves salsa dancing and she was doing that when the incident occurred. It’s a sexy dance. Maybe the other fellow got jealous.
The dust-up occurred at a party after competition on Sunday in Turin. Witnesses said the normally reserved and calculating Gormally suddenly lost his composure and lunged at Aronian after spotting the 23-year-old “energetically” dancing with Caoili, who he had been wooing after meeting her at an earlier tournament.
Stunned colleagues had to pull the 30-year-old Englishman off his rival, ending the duel in a stalemate. But Aronian’s teammates exacted revenge when they spotted Gormally in a cafe the next day. Gormally fled Turin, missing the tournament’s final days as his team finished 19th out of 150 countries. The Armenians took the title. The Briton, who faces a lengthy ban over the stoush, has refused to comment, saying: “It’s personal and it’s got nothing to do with you.”
Aronian is a gentleman and scholar.
Here he says women can’t play chess, I guess this means Caoli as well!
Nice boyfriend he is…