AT A GLANCE
The Women’s Grandmaster title journey continues for wunderkind Ruelle Canino after setting herself on board for a European trip as part of her preparations for the World Chess Olympiad in September.
The Women’s Grandmaster title journey continues for wunderkind Ruelle Canino after setting herself on board for a European trip as part of her preparations for the World Chess Olympiad in September.
Canino, 16, the reigning champion of the Philippine National Women’s Chess Championships, will be tested as she is expected to battle top woodpushers to boost her bid of Woman Grandmaster status.
The Far Eastern University standout will open her European campaign on Aug. 3 up to 10 in Vlissingen, Netherlands where she is scheduled to participate in the HZ University of Applied Sciences Chess Tournament.
She will then go to Germany for the Dortmund Open slated Aug. 10 to 18, followed by the Open Internacional d’escacs Santis-Ciutat de Barcelona on Aug. 23 until Sept. 1.
Canino hopes the tournaments are enough to polish her game in time for her biggest assignment -- the Chess Olympiad -- which unfolds on Sept. 10 to 23 in Budapest, Hungary.
Before that Olympiad, Canino along with her coach and National Chess Federation of the Philippines chief executive officer Jayson Gonzales will join hands with WGM Janelle Mae Frayna and WIM Jan Jodilyn Fronda, who is already competing in Switzerland.
“This is in preparation for November in AIMAG and World Olympiad in September as well as for her to become a WGM,” said Gonzales, whose trip is bankrolled by the Philippine Sports Commission and backed by the NCFP and Philippine Olympic Committee.
The Philippine contingent will return to the country on Sept. 3 then set to leave after a few days with the male woodpushers before they fly to Budapest.
