GMDaniel Alsina Leal

Daniel Alsina Leal was born in Barcelona in 1988 and represented Spain in European and world youth championships. He won the Spanish under-eighteen championship in 2006. He became an International Master in 2008. In 2009 he won the Barcelona tournament outright despite being the only player in the field without a grandmaster title, finishing ahead of Alexey Dreev, Pavel Tregubov and Ulf Andersson. He became a grandmaster in 2010. That year he played for Spain at the Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad, scoring four wins, two draws and one loss on the reserve board.