More fun than chess?

This story comes from the Melbourne Herald Sun, who attributed it to The Australian, who picked it up from The Times.

Obviously, like Gormallygate, it's going to circumnavigate the world a few more times before it drops out of orbit.

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Young chess prodigy runs away, lives with stripper
by Tom Hennigan in Sao Paulo

A CHESS prodigy who ran away and hooked an exotic dancer almost twice his age has returned home to a hero's welcome after a teenage adventure that took him to Brazil's hotspots.

It all began when Emilio Cordova, a 15-year-old international master from Peru, was crowned South American chess champion in January after winning a tournament in the Argentine city of Cordoba.

Instead of returning to Lima, he told relatives he was heading to Brazil to compete in tournaments there in a push to reach the rank of international grandmaster.

But far from focusing on his grandmaster dreams, Emilio quickly became caught up in Sao Paulo's pulsating and sleazy nightlife. He formed a relationship with a single Brazilian mother, Adriane Oliveira, 29, dubbed the "Bella Brasileira" by the Peruvian media, with whom he soon fell in love.

Ms Oliveira works in Love Story, a hot city club where young Emilio took to spending his nights dancing.

To fund his Brazilian sojourn, he told his family he had fallen ill and needed them to wire out money to pay for medical expenses.

He even sold his laptop computer, which contained all his chess notes and training programs.

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You can read the rest of this young man's epic journey from childhood to adulthood (since the lady was unmarried it can scarcely be called adultery!) here: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21385658-663,00.html