Giovanna Arbunic Castro
Brunilda Giovanna Arbunic Castro is a Chilean chess player who hold the FIDE title of Woman International Master.Biography
In the 1980s Giovanna Arbunic Castro was one of the leading Chilean women's chess players. She comes from the Magallanes Region. She was trained in 1981 and 1982 by Chilean FIDE Master David Arturo Godoy Bugueño. For a long time, she lives near Valencia and is married to the Chilean International Master Daniel Barría Zuñiga. Couple have a son and they founded a chess school, the Academia Online Manuelito. She eight time won the Chilean Women's Chess Championship. In 1982, she was awarded the FIDE International Women Master title. She won women's zone tournaments in 1982 in Morón, in 1985 in São Paulo and in 1999 in Villa Martelli. Giovanna Arbunic Castro play in lower Spanish leagues for the chess club Ajedrez Ed Manila Estrellas.
Giovanna Arbunic Castro twice participated in the Women's World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournaments:
Giovanna Arbunic Castro played for Chile in the Women's Chess Olympiads:
