Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga

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Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga, Andorra 2014
Association PeruPeru Peru
Born February 25, 1967
Camaná, Arequipa region , Peru
title International Master (1984)
Grand Master (1986)
Current  Elo rating 2630 (July 2020)
Best Elo rating 2699 (June to July 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga (born February 25, 1967 in Camaná, Arequipa region ) is a Peruvian chess player .

Life

The third oldest of seven children, Granda Zúñiga grew up in rural Camaná. At the age of five he learned to play chess. He later received training from FIDE Master Javier García Toledo and IM Oscar Quiñones Carrillo . He is one of the few, if not the only, grandmasters with a rating that is usually over 2600 Elo points , who neither has a second nor, according to his own statements, prepares himself with the help of EDP. His game is intuitive and aggressive with a deep understanding of attack options. As a fruit farmer and without funding from the Peruvian state or the Peruvian Chess Federation (FPA), he does not have the financial resources like many other chess players among the top forty in the world rankings. Granda Zúñiga is known for sometimes being undetectable for a few weeks but reappearing. In 1998 he spoke of a supernatural apparition , a personal experience that made him quit playing chess for several years. In 2002, however, he began to play tournaments again.

Successes and tournament career

Development of Granda Zúñiga's Elo rating, January 1983 to April 2009

He became international champion in 1984 and grandmaster in 1986. He was last among the top 40 of the FIDE world rankings (his best world ranking position so far was 25th place) in the first half of 1998.

With the Peruvian national team, he took part in eleven chess Olympiads from 1986 up to and including 2014 , ten times on the first board with an overall result of 83.5 points from 133 games (+60 = 47 −26). At the Pan American team championship in 1987 in Junín , Argentina , he received an individual gold medal for his score of 4.5 out of 6 on the top board of the Peruvian national team.

After winning the Arequipa championship in 1976 as a child , his first major international success was winning the U14 World Cup in Mazatlán in 1980. For this he received the Laureles Deportivos sports award . This was followed a few years later by winning the Pan American Youth Championship in Lima (1984) as well as a large number of tournament successes in Havana (1986), Lyon , Barcelona and Seville (both 1990), Buenos Aires (1991) and New York (1992).

Another highlight was the 1993 victory in the zone tournament in Brasília with seven points from nine games. He was able to repeat this success in 1995 at the zone tournament in São Paulo . In 1993, Bent Larsen also won the International Open ( Abierto Internacional ) in Mar del Plata . From 1994 to 1997 and 2002 Granda Zúñiga won the Peruvian Individual Championship five times.

Granda Zúñiga took part twice in a row victoriously at the strong Jan Hein Donner Memorial in Amsterdam : 1995 (shared with Jan Timman , before Judit Polgár , Alexei Schirow , Alexander Chalifman , Alexander Morosewitsch , Valeri Salow and Jeroen Piket ) and in the following and last edition 1996 (shared with Wassyl Iwantschuk , before Gata Kamsky , Nick de Firmian , Jeroen Piket, also Valeri Salow, Jan Timman and Alexander Morosewitsch, among others).

Granda Zúñiga has also achieved numerous tournament successes in recent times: starting in 2003 at the 38th Capablanca memorial tournament in Havana, the Copa Entel 2004 in Santiago de Chile , the FEDA 103 Salinas 2005 in Guayaquil - and also in 2005 - at the ITT Lic.Berman Hillmann in Santa Cruz de la Sierra or Magistral 50 Aniversario de V. Martel in Buenos Aires and in 2006 at the 2nd Vila de Sort International Open in Sort and again the aforementioned Copa Entel in Santiago de Chile. In 2007 he won further victories in San Cristóbal (Venezuela) and Navalmoral de la Mata, in 2008 he won the 15th Feria del Orinoco tournament in Ciudad Bolívar , the 28th Open Internacional Villa de Benasque in Benasque and the 3rd Open Internacional in Cáceres . He won the American continental championship three times, namely in 2005 in Buenos Aires, 2007 in Cali and 2012 in Mar del Plata. Granda Zúñiga also defended his reputation as one of the strongest grandmasters in Latin America in 2008 with his victory at the 2nd Ibero-American Championship in Morelia . In November 2017 he won the senior world championship in the age group 50+ in Acqui Terme .

Since 2007 he has played in the Portuguese Campeonato Nacional for the multiple Portuguese team champion Academia Xadrex de Gaia from Vila Nova de Gaia , in the Spanish team championship in 1997 he played for La Caja de Canarias , 2007 to 2009 for Caja Canarias Santa Cruz , with whom he played in 2008 Champion became, then for Jaime Casas de Monzón and 2015 for Ajedrez Collado Villalba . He also took part in the 1990 European Club Cup with La Caja de Canarias . In the German Bundesliga , Granda Zúñiga played for DJK Aufwärts St. Josef Aachen in the 2016/17 season .

Game example

A knight sacrifice in a chess game against Yasser Seirawan , which he played in Buenos Aires in 1993, was selected by Tim Krabbé as one of the 20 most fantastic moves in chess history:

Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga -
Yasser Seirawan
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Position after 8.… g7 – g6

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1. Ng1 – f3 Ng8 – f6 2. c2 – c4 c7 – c5 3. Nb1 – c3 e7 – e6 4. g2 – g3 b7 – b6 5. Bf1 – g2 Bc8 – b7 6. 0–0 Nb8 – c6 7. e2 – e4 e6 – e5 8. d2 – d3 g7 – g6

The English grandmaster John Emms wrote in his book The most amazing chess moves of all time that he would normally have thought the next move a simple overlook had it not been made by such a good player. The compensation for White consists in the fact that he drives the black knights back by increasing the speed , gains space and can initiate an attack on the king. In addition, the victim has a strong psychological effect and offers white good practical opportunities. Granda Zúñiga pondered this for 40 minutes.

9. Nf3xe5 Nc6xe5 10. f2-f4 Ne5-c6 11. e4-e5 Nf6-g8 12. f4-f5 Ng8-h6

Seirawan later gave 12.… Ra8 – b8 as an improvement.

13. Nc3 – e4 Nf6xf5 14. Ne4 – f6 + Ke8 – e7 15. Nf6 – d5 + Ke7 – e8 16. Nd5 – f6 + Ke8 – e7 17.g3 – g4 Nf5 – d4 18. Qd1 – e1 Qd8 – b8 19. Nf6– d5 + Ke7 – d8 20. Bc1 – g5 + Kd8 – c8 21. Rf1xf7 Nd4 – e6 22. Bg5 – f6 Nc6 – d8 23. Rf7 – e7 Rh8 – g8

After this mistake, White gains the upper hand. 23.… Bb7xd5 with an unclear position would have been better.

24. Re7 – e8 Bb7 – c6 25. Bf6xd8 Ne6xd8 26. Nd5 – f6 Rg8 – h8 27. Bg2xc6 d7xc6 28. De1 – e4 Qb8 – c7 29. e5 – e6 Bf8 – g7 30. e6 – e7 Rh8xe8 31. Nf6xe8 Bg7 –D4 + 32. Kg1 – h1 Qc7 – d7 33. Ne8 – d6 + Qd7xd6 34. e7 – e8D a7 – a5 35. Re1 – f1 Re8 – a7 36. Rf1 – f8 Re7 – d7 37. De4 – e6 Qd6xe6 38. De8xe6 Kc8 -C7 39. De6 – e2 Bd4 – g7 40. Rf8 – f2 Bg7 – d4 41. Rf2 – f3 Rd8 – f7 42. Rf3 – f4 Nf7 – d6 43. Kh1 – g2 Nd6 – c8 44. b2 – b3 Rd7 – e7 45. Rf4 – e4 Re7 – f7 46. De2 – e1 Rf7 – d7 47. De1 – g3 + Kc7 – b7 48. h2 – h3 Rd7 – f7 49. h3 – h4 Rf7 – d7 50. Re4 – e6 Bd4 – c3 51. Qg2 – f2 Nc8 – d6 52. Qf3 – f8 Nd6 – c8 53. Re6 – e8 Rd7 – c7 54. Re8 – d8 Bc3 – g7 55. Qf8 – e8 Bg7 – f6 56. Rd8xc8 1: 0

Black gave up. After 56.… Rc7xc8 the double attack 57. Qe8 – f7 + would conquer the bishop .

Web links

Commons : Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LOS NIÑOS Y EL AJEDREZ . ( Memento of October 26, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Article by Pedro García Toledo in the weekly magazine Nuestro Círuolo # 161 of September 3, 2005 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Granda Zúñigas Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  3. ↑ Pan American Championship 1987 on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Granda desaparece misteriosamente . Article of October 10, 2005 in the daily newspaper La República
  5. ↑ Winner of the Open in Mar del Plata ( Memento of July 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
  6. ↑ The Jan Hein Donner Memorial 1996 on chessgames.com (English)
  7. ↑ 38. Capablanca Memorial on fide.com (English)
  8. ↑ Copa Entel 2004 on fide.com (English)
  9. ↑ FEDA 103 on fide.com (English)
  10. ↑ ITT on fide.com (English)
  11. ↑ Magistral Aniversario de V. Martel on fide.com (English)
  12. ↑ 2nd Vila de Sort Open on fide.com (English)
  13. ↑ Copa Entel 2006, tournament website (Spanish)
  14. ↑ Tournament result ( memento from September 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on Ajedrezorinoco.com (Spanish)
  15. ↑ Navalmoral tournament in The Week in Chess # 684 from December 17, 2007 (English)
  16. ↑ Gran Torneo de ajedrez Feria del Orinoco 2008, tournament website ( Memento from February 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) (before Bartłomiej Macieja and Nikola Mitkov )
  17. ↑ 28. Open Internacional Villa de Benasque on fide.com (English)
  18. ↑ III. Open Internacianal 2008 in The Week in Chess # 733 from November 24, 2008
  19. ↑ Continental Championship, official site ( Memento from December 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
  20. ^ Albert Silver: Granda Zuniga winner of the Mar del Plata Continental 2012 . chessbase.de
  21. ↑ 27th World Senior Chess Championship 2017 Open +50. In: chess-results.com. November 18, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  23. ↑ Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
  24. ↑ site of Tim Krabbé (English)
  25. ^ John Emms: The most amazing chess moves of all time . Gambit, London 2000, ISBN 1-901983-29-3 , p. 154.
  26. ↑ The game Granda Zuniga - Seirawan on chessgames.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Granda Zúñiga, Julio Ernesto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Granda Zuniga, Julio E (FIDE); Granda, Julio; Granda Zuniga, Julio; Granda Zuñiga, Julio; Гранда Суньига, Хулио Эрнесто (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian chess grandmaster
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Camaná , Arequipa Region , Peru