Cristobal Henriquez, young promising Chilean champion is doing history at the FIDE chess world cup by defeating no other than elite player, former world championship candidate Boris Gelfand. In the first game Cristobal showed extreme resiliency by helding Gelfand to a draw in game that he was losing all the time, but managed to hang on and a tired Gelfand saw some chances for get mated and soon offered a draw. In the second game Cristobal managed to draw with white, and then came the rapid-tiebreaks, probably unknown to Gelfand is that Henriquez is a very strong rapid chess player and again with white managed to get a draw, Gelfand, desperate to win offered a pawn with no compensation at all, even giving chances to his opponent, Henriquez didn´t dissapoing and won the game and match. Other notable southamerican players managed to advance are Granda from Peru and Mareco from Argentina who dispatched notably strong opponent Ni-Hua from China.