When one thinks of chess players, and especially grandmasters and international masters, one normally thinks of nerdy people who are a bit, well, odd. Eccentric. Unstable, even. Bobby Fischer comes to mind.
But this article begins with the story of the South American chess champion who is just 15, but has run away from his family in Peru to move in with a 29 year old exotic dancer in Brasil. Is this eccentric? Lucky? You decide.