{"id":42109,"date":"2025-12-20T17:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=42109"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:30:25","slug":"david-anton-guijarro-and-marta-garcia-martin-win-2025-spanish-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/david-anton-guijarro-and-marta-garcia-martin-win-2025-spanish-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ant\u00f3n Guijarro and Marta Garcia Martin win 2025 Spanish Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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GM David Ant\u00f3n Guijarro<\/strong> and IM Marta Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn<\/strong> have been crowned Spain’s 2025 Absolute and Women\u2019s Chess Champions, each securing their second national title.<\/p>

The Spanish Chess Championship 2025, a 9-round Swiss tournament, was held the Alanda Marbella Hotel from December 11-19. While men and women competed in the same pool, final rankings were determined separately by gender.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Top seed David Ant\u00f3n Guijarro dominated the 100-player field, which included seven Grandmasters. He made a fantastic start by winning six straight games, leaving no doubt about his overall victory. Ant\u00f3n secured the title with a round to spare, finishing with an impressive score of 8\/9.<\/p>

A remarkable seven players tied for second place with 6.5\/9, but GM Jaime Santos Latasa<\/strong> claimed the silver medal and IM Daniel Alsina Leal<\/strong> took bronze, both benefiting from a superior Buchholz tiebreak. Notably, all three podium finishers completed the tournament undefeated.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the women\u2019s standings, Marta Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn edged out WFM In\u00e9s Prado Acebo<\/strong> on tiebreaks after both players finished with 5.5\/9, sharing first place.<\/p>

Last year\u2019s champion, Sabrina Vega<\/strong>, secured the bronze medal with 5\/9.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Final standings<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>

Official website: feda.org\/feda2k16\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Photos: Facebook FEDA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GM David Ant\u00f3n Guijarro and IM Marta Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn have been crowned Spain’s 2025 Absolute and Women\u2019s Chess Champions, each securing their second national title. The Spanish Chess Championship 2025, a 9-round Swiss tournament, was held the Alanda Marbella Hotel from December 11-19. While men and women competed in the same pool, final rankings were determined separately by gender. Top seed David Ant\u00f3n Guijarro dominated the 100-player field, which included seven Grandmasters. He made a fantastic start by winning six straight games, leaving no doubt about his overall victory. Ant\u00f3n secured the title with a round to spare, finishing with an impressive score of 8\/9. A remarkable seven players tied for second place with 6.5\/9, but GM Jaime Santos Latasa claimed the silver medal and IM Daniel Alsina Leal took bronze, both benefiting from a superior Buchholz tiebreak. Notably, all three podium finishers completed the tournament undefeated. In the women\u2019s standings, Marta Garc\u00eda Mart\u00edn edged out WFM In\u00e9s Prado Acebo on tiebreaks after both players finished with 5.5\/9, sharing first place. Last year\u2019s champion, Sabrina Vega, secured the bronze medal with 5\/9. Final standings Official website: feda.org\/feda2k16\/ Photos: Facebook FEDA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[297,256],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-42109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-national-championship","tag-spain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42109"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42117,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42109\/revisions\/42117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42109"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=42109"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=42109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}