GMDaniel Howard Fernandez

Daniel Howard Fernandez was born in Stockport and shared the British under-nine championship in 2004. His family then moved to Singapore, where he joined the national junior squad and became an international master in 2010. He represented Singapore at the 2010 and 2012 Chess Olympiads. Returning to Britain, he attended Manchester Grammar School and Queens' College, Cambridge. After graduating, he trained as a time-series analyst while continuing to pursue chess. He became a grandmaster in 2017 and developed a parallel career as a chess author. In 2025 he won the Commonwealth Championship with seven and a half points from nine games. His interests outside chess include table tennis and learning languages.