After an impressive debut at the Chess Olympiad, Cagayan de Oro’s young chess prodigy, Ruelle Canino, has officially earned the title of Woman FIDE Master, as confirmed by FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich. During the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, the 16-year old Canino secured a Top 12 finish on Board 4 for the Philippine Women’s Team, defeating two women grandmasters along the way. She now holds an ELO rating of 2254, solidifying her position as one of the rising stars in Philippine chess. Congratulations!
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is the governing body of the sport of chess, and it regulates all international chess competitions. Constituted as a non-governmental institution, it was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as a Global Sporting Organization in 1999.
FIDE currently has its headquarters in Lausanne, but it was initially founded in 1924 in Paris under the motto “Gens una Sumus” (Latin for “We are one Family”). It was one of the very first International Sports Federations, alongside the governing bodies of the sports of Football, Cricket, Swimming, and Auto Racing. It is now one of the largest, encompassing 201 countries as affiliate members, in the form of National Chess Federations. Chess is nowadays a truly global sport, with dozens of millions of players in all the continents, and more than 60 million games on average played every day.
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