Daniel Dardha (born 1 October 2005) is a Belgian chess grandmaster.
He won the Belgian Chess Championship in 2019 at age 13, becoming the youngest player to do so.
[3] He earned his International Master title in 2019, shortly after winning the Belgian Chess Championship.
[5] He did not defend his title in 2023, playing instead in the 2023 Chess World Cup.
[6][7] Dardha's father, Arben Dardha, who became U-20 Albanian Champion at age 16, is a FIDE Master and, as of 2019, Daniel's coach (Daniel is also intermittently coached by Ivan Sokolov).