David Arenas

{{Short description|Colombian chess grandmaster (born 1991)}}

{{Family name hatnote|Arenas|Vanegas|lang=Spanish}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}}

{{Infobox chess biography

| name = David Arenas

| image =

| caption =

| full_name = David Arenas Vanegas

| country = Colombia

| birth_date = {{Birth-date and age|29 December 1991}}

| birth_place = Antioquia, Colombia

| title = Grandmaster (2017)

| FideID = 4403177

| peakrating = 2496 (December 2015){{cite web |title=Ratings Progress Chart: Arenas, David |url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4403177/chart |website=ratings.fide.com |access-date=20 November 2021}}

}}

David Arenas Vanegas (born 29 December 1991) is a Colombian chess grandmaster.{{Cite web |title=Arenas, David |url=https://ratings.fide.com/profile/4403177 |access-date=2021-08-02 |website=ratings.fide.com}}{{Cite web |url=https://ratings.fide.com/apps/238895.pdf |title=GM Title Application for David Arenas |website=ratings.fide.com |access-date=20 November 2021}}{{Cite web |title=The chess games of David Arenas |url=https://www.chessgames.com/player/david_arenas.html |access-date=2021-08-02 |website=chessgames.com}}{{Cite web |last=GmbH |first=ChessBase |title=David Arenas Vanegas player profile |url=https://players.chessbase.com/en/player/arenas%20vanegas_david/10436 |access-date=2021-08-02 |website=ChessBase Players |language=en}}

He won the Colombian Chess Championship in 2010 and 2015.

As part of the Colombian national chess team, he participated in the 2010 Chess Olympiad.{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/zvhr7h9l.html |title=Chess Olympiads: David Arenas Vanegas |work=OlimpBase |access-date=20 November 2021}}

Arenas received his International Master (IM) title in 2005 and his Grandmaster (GM) title in 2017.