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Pero según Jaime Ortega, fue hacia comienzos del siglo XXI cuando
la Federación decidió contratar al gran maestro ruso-peruano Georgui
Castañeda como entrenador de ajedrecistas infantiles y juveniles.
Pasado un tiempo, su labor comenzó a cristalizar en una brillante
generación de campeones escolares en Perú.
BBC Mundo. How did Peru become a
world power in school chess?
The president of the Peruvian Chess Federation, Jaime Ortega,
assures that Peru is considered as Brazil in soccer and that a rival who
faces a national exponent knows that he will have a very difficult time.
This is due to the positioning of the country as a power thanks to its
amazing results.
In the current year, the school world championship held in Panama last
June stands out, where Peru prevailed over the rest of the participating
nations.
The result confirms the trend of the last years, in which children and
adolescent chess players have confirmed their country as the power to
beat in school chess.
In the last decades, many Peruvian schools have been turning it into
one more school subject.
But according to Jaime Ortega, it was around the beginning of the 21st
century when the Federation decided to hire the Russian-Peruvian
grandmaster Georgui Castañeda as a trainer of children and youth
chess players. After some time, his work began to crystallize in a
brilliant generation of school champions in Peru.