GM David Guijarro (born 23 June 1995) is a Spanish chess player.He started playing chess at the age of 5 under the guidance of his father. At the age of 18 He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013.
Anton Guijarro won the Spanish championship eight times in various age groups and formats. He took the bronze medal at the 2012 European Youth Chess Championships, held in Prague, in the U16 category; the next year, he took silver in the World Youth Chess Championships in Al Ain in the U18 section.
Anton Guijarro was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE in 2012 and progressed to the grandmaster title in 2013.
In the 2014 European Individual Chess Championship, he won the silver medal, qualifying also for the FIDE World Cup 2015, and tied for second place in the European Blitz Championship. In the same year Anton Guijarro also won the Spanish Blitz Championship, held in Sabiote, finishing ahead of Spain's first ranking grandmaster, Francisco Vallejo Pons.
In June 2016, he took part in the 29th Magistral Ciudad de Leon tournament with Jaime Santos Latasa, Viswanathan Anand and Wei Yi. In October David Anton won the Magistral d'Escacs Ciutat de Barcelona round-robin tournament (ca) on tiebreak over Jan-Krzysztof Duda.In January 2020 he won the Tata Steel Challengers tournament, qualifying for the 2021 Masters Tournament.
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