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).
Gianmarco Leiva twice won Peruvian Chess Championship: in 2012Giuseppe Leiva es el campeon del Campeonato Nacional Absoluto de Perú and 2017.Campeonato Nacional Absoluto Perú 2017
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.XVI CAMPEONATO CONTINENTAL ABSOLUTO DE AJEDREZ DE LAS AMERICAS 2023
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.FIDE World Cup - Pairings Tree
Gianmarco Leiva played for Peru in the Chess Olympiads: 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.
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