Gianmarco Leiva Explained

Gianmarco Leiva
Country:	Peru
Birth Date:	14 September 1995
International Master (2013)
Peakrating:	2449 (June 2017)
Fideid:	3804399

Gianmarco Leiva (also Giuseppe Leiva Rodríguez; born 14 September 1995) is a Peruvian chess International Master (2013), two-times Peruvian Chess Championship winner (2012, 2017).

Chess career

Gianmarco Leiva twice participated in World Junior Chess Championships (2012, 2015).^[1]

Gianmarco Leiva twice won Peruvian Chess Championship: in 2012^[2] and 2017.^[3]

In 2023 Gianmarco Leiva ranked in 8th place in American Continental Chess Championship and after American master Kirk Ghazarian declined to play replacement his in the Chess World Cup.^[4]

In 2023, in Baku Gianmarco Leiva participated in single-elimination Chess World Cup and won in 1st round to Slovenian Grandmaster Anton Demchenko but in 2nd round lost to Emirati Grandmaster Salem Saleh.^[5]

Gianmarco Leiva played for Peru in the Chess Olympiads:^[6]

• In 2012, at third board in the 40th Chess Olympiad in Istanbul (+3, =6, -2).

In 2021, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title.

Notes and References

1. Web site: OlimpBase :: World Junior Chess Championship :: Leiva Rodríguez, Giuseppe. www.olimpbase.org.
2. https://es.chessdom.com/2012/giuseppe-leiva-es-el-campeon-del-campeonato-nacional-absoluto-de-peru/ Giuseppe Leiva es el campeon del Campeonato Nacional Absoluto de Perú
3. https://chess-results.com/tnr266274.aspx?lan=1&art=4&turdet=YES&flag=30 Campeonato Nacional Absoluto Perú 2017
4. https://chess-results.com/tnr742500.aspx?lan=1&art=4&turdet=YES&flag=30 XVI CAMPEONATO CONTINENTAL ABSOLUTO DE AJEDREZ DE LAS AMERICAS 2023
5. https://worldcup2023.fide.com/tree FIDE World Cup - Pairings Tree
6. Web site: OlimpBase :: Men's Chess Olympiads :: Giuseppe Leiva. www.olimpbase.org.