{"id":7871,"date":"2016-09-14T16:58:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T08:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2016-09-14T16:59:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T08:59:59","slug":"philippines-gets-its-first-woman-grandmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/09\/14\/philippines-gets-its-first-woman-grandmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines gets its first Woman Grandmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The Philippine Women\u2019s Chess Team may have finished 34<sup>th<\/sup> in a pool of 140 teams; but for one Janelle Mae Frayna, her dream of being a woman grandmaster is as good as fulfilled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7872 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/Janelle-Mae-Frayna.jpg\" alt=\"janelle-mae-frayna\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>CONGRATULATIONS! Janelle May Frayna is the Philippines\u2019 first Woman Grandmaster. (Image by Paul Truong, grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.bakuchessolympiad.com\/photos\/223#lg=1&amp;slide=213\">Baku Chess Olympiad<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The 20-year-old senior Psychology student from Far Eastern University, Manila will be our country\u2019s first Woman Grandmaster (WGM) after battling International Master (IM) Davaademberel Nomin-Erdene of Mongolia to a draw at the recently-concluded 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">She achieved the feat after amassing four wins, four draws, and only one loss during the 11-round tournament, granting her 6 points. The announcement was made by Philippine Women\u2019s team skipper and Frayna\u2019s personal coach, Grandmaster Jayson Gonzales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The title, however, was delayed for a month. Frayna was already in the running for WGM when she entered last month\u2019s World Junior Chess Championships in India. She had a strong showing throughout the tournament, but faltered in her final 3 games to land 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The title would still need to be confirmed by the World Chess Federation (FIDE), but from the looks of what she has achieved in the tournament, it will only be a matter of time before it is confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Frayna\u2019s feat is a first for the country and its chess teams since Eugene Torre became Asia\u2019s first Grandmaster during the 1974 Chess Olympiad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.inquirer.net\/222337\/frayna-makes-history-as-phs-1st-woman-chess-grandmaster\">Inquirer.net<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.ph\/chess\/news\/janelle-mae-frayna-makes-history-as-she-distinguishes-herself-as-countrys-first-ever-women\">Spin.ph<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/sports\/2016\/09\/13\/1623260\/frayna-emerges-first-pinay-gm\">The Philippine Star<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/sports\/by-sport\/other-sports\/146021-janelle-mae-frayna-chess-grandmaster?utm_content=buffer80846&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Rappler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chess-results.com\/tnr232876.aspx?lan=1&amp;art=0&amp;rd=11&amp;flag=30&amp;wi=821\">chess-results.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet our country\u2019s first Woman Grandmaster!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/09\/Janelle-Mae-Frayna-e1473843500928.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7883,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions\/7883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}