Gianmarco Leiva


Gianmarco Leiva is a Peruvian chess International Master, two-times Peruvian Chess Championship winner.

Chess career

Gianmarco Leiva twice participated in World Junior Chess Championships.
Gianmarco Leiva twice won Peruvian Chess Championship: in 2012 and 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.
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.
Gianmarco Leiva played for Peru in the Chess Olympiads:
In 2021, he was awarded the FIDE International Master title.