IMLorenzo Perea Fruet

Lorenzo Perea Fruet learned chess from his father and began competing at six. He developed at El Caballo chess club in Casabermeja, near Málaga. In 2023, aged fourteen, he became the youngest winner of the Andalusian open championship. He also won the region's blitz championship and under-eighteen rapid title that year. In August 2025 he took silver in the European Under-18 Rapid Championship in Thessaloniki. His seven points equalled the winner's score, with tiebreaks deciding the medals. At seventeen he completed the international master requirements. FIDE records his IM title in 2026.