GMBardiya Daneshvar

Bardiya Daneshvar was born in Rasht, Iran, in 2006. He became an international master in 2018. While still a teenager, he won Iran's national championship in 2022. He also represented Iran at that year's World Youth Under-16 Olympiad. FIDE awarded him the grandmaster title in 2023.

He finished runner-up to Shamsiddin Vokhidov at the 2023 Asian Continental Championship. At the World Cup later that year, he eliminated Mahammad Muradli and then Alexander Grischuk, the twelfth seed. Salem Saleh ended his run in the third round. Daneshvar won the 2024 Sharjah Masters despite starting as the fiftieth seed. He became Asian champion in Al Ain in 2025, taking the lead in round six and retaining it to the finish. A penultimate-round win against Abhimanyu Puranik left him a full point ahead before the final round.