GMFederico Perez Ponsa

Federico Pérez Ponsa was born in Buenos Aires in 1993. He won the Pan-American under-14 championship in 2007. At fifteen he qualified for his first senior Argentine championship. He won the South American under-20 title in 2011 and completed his grandmaster requirements that year; FIDE records the title under 2012. He tied for the Argentine championship in 2014 but lost the playoff to Rubén Felgaer. At the 2015 World Cup he drew both classical games against Leinier Domínguez before losing the tiebreak. He returned to the World Cup in 2021, defeating Momchil Nikolov before losing to Alexander Grischuk. In 2022 he became Argentine champion after a three-player playoff. At the South American Games that year he earned individual rapid bronze, mixed blitz silver and mixed rapid gold with Claudia Amura. He won the 2024 Masters Ciudad de Buenos Aires with a final-round victory over Aryan Tari. His sporting honors include the Olimpia de Plata and a Konex diploma.