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After becoming South America’s chess champion with a win at a January tournament in Argentina, 15-year-old Emilio Cordova of Peru told his family he was traveling on to Brazil for more competitions. According to a March dispatch in the Times of London, when months went by and he hadn’t returned, the Peruvian press tracked him to Sao Paulo, where they found he’d gotten involved with a 29-year-old woman who worked as a dancer at a well-known after-hours nightclub. Though he swore he wouldn’t leave, ultimately his father (with help from the Peruvian foreign ministry) brought him back to Lima. Cordova explained to reporters, “I have to live.”
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