GMDavid Anton Guijarro

David Antón Guijarro was born in Murcia and grew up in Madrid, learning chess from his father at five. He studied mathematics at the Complutense University before concentrating on professional chess with coach David Martínez. His junior career included multiple Spanish age-group titles. In 2013 he became a grandmaster and won silver at the World Under-18 Championship. He took European Individual silver in 2014 and won the Spanish blitz championship that year. In 2016 he won the Barcelona invitational on tiebreak ahead of Jan-Krzysztof Duda. At Gibraltar in 2017 he defeated Veselin Topalov and Boris Gelfand before finishing second after a playoff with Hikaru Nakamura and Yu Yangyi. In January 2020 he won the Tata Steel Challengers tournament. That victory earned him a place in the following year's Masters field.