Chess - The Scotsman 21/08/13

IN an age when chess fans have grown numb to the exploits of adolescent wonders, recently we’ve witnessed some remarkable revivals from stars of yesteryear, such as Boris Gelfand and Mickey Adams.

The latest to see a competitive renaissance is the Peruvian Grandmaster Julio Granda Zuniga, 46, with a string of upset wins at the FIDE World Cup in Tromsø, Norway.

The veteran five-times champion of Peru, who is the oldest player left in the competition – just behind 45-year-old Gelfand and Vassily Ivanchuk, 44 – qualified for the World Cup by winning the American Continental Championship in 2012 and 2013. In Tromsø, he’s been the big underdog in his three matches, but has defied the odds and age barrier to dispatch Armenian Hrant Melkumyan, followed by the Hungarian former elite star Peter Leko, and now the Dutch and World Junior number one, Anish Giri.

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Zuniga, who says he’s rescheduled his flight home three times so far, will now meet the number two seed Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the fourth round. The final 16 will be: A Morozevich v E Tomashevsky, F Caruana v J Granada Zuniga, V Ivanchuk v V Kramnik, L Quang Le v P Svidler, D Andreiken v S Karjakin, H Nakamura v A Korobov, M Vachier-Lagrave v B Gelfand, and G Kamsky v S Mamedyarov.

A Giri - J Granda Zuniga

FIDE World Cup, (3.2)

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