Jan Jodilyn Fronda

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Jan Jodilyn Fronda
CountryPhilippines
Born1994 (age 29–30)
Alaminos, Pangasinan, Philippines
Title Woman International Master (2014)
Peak rating 2184 (January 2017)

Jan Jodilyn Fronda (born 1994 [1] ) is a Filipina chess player who won the women's Philippine Chess Championship in 2015 and 2019.

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Chess career

As a junior in 2013, she won the girls' national championship [2] and in September, 2013, she finished 28th in the girls' division in the World Junior Chess Championship in Turkey. [3]

Fronda earned the title of Woman international master (WIM) in 2014. [4]

Fronda is a De La Salle University alumnus, and during her years at the school she won awards as Rookie of the Year, Athlete of the Year, and was a three-time UAAP MVP award winner as she led the university's women's chess team to win the UAAP championship four consecutive times. [5] [6] [7] While still a student at De La Salle, she won her first national championship in 2015. [8] [9]

While completing in the 2016 Chess Olympiad, Fronda's endgame win against GM Bela Khotenashvili was pivotal to the Filipina team's upset of Georgia in the second round. [10] [11]

Fronda, after teaching chess in Singapore at the Asean Chess Academy for two years, again won the women's national chess championship of the Philippines in 2019. [9] [12] The only undefeated player in the round-robin event, she finished with six wins and seven draws, a full point ahead of her nearest competition. [13] The Philippine News Agency called her 41-move win in a King's Indian Defense against WFM Allaney Jia Doroy a "brilliant final-round victory" [5] although The Rappler quoted Fronda as saying, "I was lucky. Doroy appeared to have the advantage because her pieces were active but she did not assess the position accurately. That is why I got the advantage." [14]

In August, 2022, Fronda played second board for the Philippine women's Chess Olympiad team. [15]

Known as "Coach Jodi" by her students at the Asean Chess Academy and in De La Salle Santiago Zobel School, Fronda is a licensed FIDE instructor for 2022-2023. [13] [4]

Personal life

Fronda is from Alaminos, Pangansinan. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Chess FRONDA Jan Jodilyn - The 19th Asian Games". info.hangzhou2022.cn. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  2. ↑ Sison, Jovie (14 September 2013). "Chess News Philippines: DOCENA, FRONDA BOUNCES BACK IN TURKEY WORLD JUNIOR". Chess News Philippines. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Fronda 28th in world junior chess". Philstar.com. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Fronda, Jan Jodilyn". ratings.fide.com. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 "WIM Fronda bags national women's chess title". Philippine News Agency. 13 September 2019. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  6. ↑ "Fronda, Jan Jodilyn P. | De La Salle Alumni Association". www.dlsaa.com. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "Bersamina, Literatus, Fronda pace youth chess". Philstar.com. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  8. ↑ "Final round - Battle of the Grandmasters | Chess News (NCFP)". 3 January 2017. Archived from the original on 3 January 2017. Retrieved 9 November 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  9. 1 2 Villar, Joey. "Fronda claims Philippine women's chess crown". Philstar.com. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  10. ↑ Mike Klein (3 September 2016). "Carlsen Succeeds With New 1st Move In Olympiad's 2nd Round". Chess.com.
  11. ↑ Albert Silver (3 September 2016). "2016 Baku Rd2: the climb steepens". ChessBase.
  12. ↑ "Fronda, Mordido seize share of lead in National Women's Chess Championship". Manila Bulletin. 20 December 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  13. 1 2 "ASEAN Chess Academy | WIM Jodi Fronda is the 2019 Philippine Women's Chess Champion" . Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  14. ↑ "Fronda cops 2nd national chess title". RAPPLER. 12 September 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
  15. ↑ leamsiogima (7 August 2022). "PH draws with powerhouse Poland while Pinays beat Bolivians in 44th World Chess Olympiad". Maharlika TV. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
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