After her return from the Chess Olympics in Budapest, where she obtained a historic result with the women’s team, Candela Francisco challenged 18 subway users in a new edition of the tournament “Chess in motion: Subway Challenge” which took place at the Las Heras Station on Line H.
On this occasion, the participants were over 18 years old who were winners of a draw held on Emova’s Instagram and had the opportunity to face the champion who invited them for more than two hours to develop ingenuity and power of analysis, surprising also to users passing through the station.
“Within the framework of the Chess in Motion initiative, we carried out a new day where users had the unique opportunity to play in a simultaneous game with the U-20 World Champion, who also recently represented us in the Chess Olympics. This is an unprecedented action for our community because this type of sports has never been brought closer to the Subway area before,” said Mariana Giacumbo, Manager of Institutional Relations and Media at Emova.
In May the company carried out the first edition of this challenge, where Candela competed with fans between 10 and 21 years old, in the same station. To build the identity of this initiative, the logo and image of the campaign were designed together with the illustrator Josefina Jolly and the station was decorated with corporeal pieces, banners and an Instagrammable space for visitors to share their photo using the hashtag #DesafíoenelSubte .
A small summary of a great career
Candela was the Argentine youth women’s champion in the U-12 division in 2017, in the U-14 division in 2019 and in the U-16 division in 2021 and 2022.
In 2018 he obtained his first Pan American title (U-12) in Santiago, Chile at the age of 11. In 2019, she became the South American U-14 champion in both modalities (thought and Blitz) in Buenos Aires. That same year, she was the Pan American runner-up in Guayaquil. In 2020 she achieved the title of Blitz World Runner-up Champion. In 2022 she became runner-up in the Argentine Superior Women’s Championship and once again became Pan American Champion and South American Champion in the Under-16 category.
In May 2023 she continued making history and became Continental Champion at just 16 years old, obtaining the title of Grand Master and in October she became World Youth Champion.
In 2024 she was a member of the Argentine women’s team that obtained a historic record in a chess Olympiad.
Today all her efforts are aimed at winning the absolute titles of International Master and Grandmaster, given that she has already obtained all the possible female titles awarded by FIDE, which are for life.
Source: Ambito
