ALIREZA FIROUZJA (born Jun-18-2003, 21 years old) Iran (federation/nationality France) [what is this?] International Master (2016); Grandmaster (2018); Asian U12 Champion (2015); Iranian Champion (2016, 2019); Asian Blitz Champion (2018) In January, 2016, Alireza Firouzja won the Iranian national championship at age 12, with a score of 8-3. As of May 2016, he was the highest rated player in the world under 14. Along with Parham Maghsoodloo (who commandeered their top board) and Arash Tahbaz (8 out of 9 games played at their 4th seat), the 3 each scored 7.5 for Iran and a team win at the 2016 World youth chess Olympiad(1). Firouzja also earned the silver medal on second board at that event. He scored eight points from nine games at the 2017 WYCO(2) playing as Iran's second board. At the FIDE World Cup in September 2019, Firouzja defeated Arman Pashikian and Daniil Dubov in rounds one and two, respectively. This made Firouzja the first Iranian player to reach the third round of a Chess World Cup. In round three, he faced the number-one seed Ding Liren. Firouzja drew with Ding in the two classical games, but lost both of the rapid tiebreakers and was eliminated from the tournament. Firouzja participated in the 2020 annual Norway Chess supertournament, in Stavanger. The tournament was held with a football scoring system (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss). In the case of a draw, players played an armageddon game for an additional 1/2 point. Firouzja finished in second place, behind World Champion Magnus Carlsen and ahead of Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. He is the second-youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700 (after Wei Yi), at the age of 16 years and 1 month. By his eighteenth birthday in June 2021 he was rated 2759 and ranked 13th in the world. In September 2021, Firouzja finished in second place in the Norway Chess supertournament, behind Magnus Carlsen, but ahead of a field including World Championship challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi and former challenger Sergey Karjakin. He scored +5 -2 =3 in standard time control games, and moved into the world's top 10 for the first time in the October 2021 rating list. In November 2021, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament (+6 -1 =4), which qualified him for the Candidates Tournament 2022. Since 2019, he has been based in France, and he became a French citizen in July 2021. References / Sources (1) http://wyco2016chess.sk/en (2016 World youth chess Olympiad), (2) http://www.chess-results.com/tnr319... (2017 World Youth Chess Olympiad). Wikipedia article: Alireza Firouzja Last updated: 2021-11-21 06:02:41

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page 1 of 60; games 1-25 of 1,491  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Y Solodovnichenko vs Firouzja 1-0 51 2015 Dubai Chess Open B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 2. S Kidambi vs Firouzja   ½-½ 120 2015 Dubai Chess Open A16 English 3. Firouzja vs I Abdelnabbi   1-0 41 2015 Dubai Chess Open C71 Ruy Lopez 4. M Karthikeyan vs Firouzja   1-0 58 2015 Dubai Chess Open B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 5. Firouzja vs S Grover   0-1 41 2015 Dubai Chess Open A07 King's Indian Attack 6. P Rout vs Firouzja   1-0 108 2015 22nd Abu Dhabi Masters B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 7. Firouzja vs P Tregubov 1-0 42 2015 Qatar Masters A06 Reti Opening 8. Swiercz vs Firouzja 1-0 50 2015 Qatar Masters B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 9. Firouzja vs R Svane   ½-½ 70 2015 Qatar Masters B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation 10. Firouzja vs H Dronavalli   ½-½ 34 2015 Qatar Masters A05 Reti Opening 11. B Esen vs Firouzja   1-0 40 2015 Qatar Masters E60 King's Indian Defense 12. S Lorparizangeneh vs Firouzja 0-1 71 2015 Qatar Masters E84 King's Indian, Samisch, Panno Main line 13. Firouzja vs S Bromberger   ½-½ 40 2015 Qatar Masters A04 Reti Opening 14. M Al Sayed vs Firouzja   1-0 48 2015 Qatar Masters D80 Grunfeld 15. Firouzja vs N Das 1-0 59 2015 Qatar Masters A07 King's Indian Attack 16. E Ghaem Maghami vs Firouzja 0-1 42 2016 IRI-ch Men Final 2015 E61 King's Indian 17. S Lu vs Firouzja 1-0 64 2016 Aeroflot Open B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 18. Firouzja vs K Kulaots   ½-½ 90 2016 Aeroflot Open B41 Sicilian, Kan 19. B Lalith vs Firouzja 1-0 39 2016 Aeroflot Open E90 King's Indian 20. B Socko vs Firouzja   ½-½ 89 2016 Aeroflot Open B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 21. Firouzja vs N Maiorov   ½-½ 63 2016 Aeroflot Open C48 Four Knights 22. Firouzja vs C Aravindh   0-1 60 2016 Aeroflot Open B33 Sicilian 23. Goryachkina vs Firouzja 1-0 53 2016 Aeroflot Open A48 King's Indian 24. Firouzja vs Y Wang 1-0 29 2016 Aeroflot Open C10 French 25. Firouzja vs Dineth Nimnaka Naotunna 1-0 66 2016 Asian Nations Cup E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical  page 1 of 60; games 1-25 of 1,491

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 13 OF 19 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-19-21    thebully99: I think Grischuk has unpleasant surprises in store for Firouzja, all the more since having dealt with the sub-2700 GMs thus, Firouzja will want to do just the same to Grischuk and this is impossible. Nov-19-21    ndg2: Yeah, Grischuk fears no one and will not be a "customer". OTOH, he wasn't really a role model for fighting chess in this tournament so far (seven draws in seven games, most of them around 30 moves). Not sure, whether he wants to pull out all the stops exactly against Firouzja. Nov-19-21    Kraisteinkov: Of course it would be incredible to see Firouzja enter this select club, but we better wait until the tournament is over. It took Kramnik 3 years and 11 months to go from 2799 (2008.01) to 2800 (2011.11) ... Nov-20-21    parmetd: Still if Grischul draws that's fine. Firo only needs 1.5/2 Nov-20-21    norami: Up until now, the five greatest 18 year old players have been, in chronological order, Fischer, Kasparov, Kramnik, Ponomariov and Carlson. Firouzja has joined them. Of the first five, two continued to improve and became champion for a long time, two stagnated for awhile but eventually became champion, and one got steadily worse. We will see what happens to Firouzja. Nov-20-21    macer75: <Kraisteinkov: Of course it would be incredible to see Firouzja enter this select club, but we better wait until the tournament is over. It took Kramnik 3 years and 11 months to go from 2799 (2008.01) to 2800 (2011.11) ...> It's taking Giri even longer than that. Nov-20-21    ndg2: It's kinda funny, that Alireza's highest live rating is now already higher than Nepo's (2797.3, achieved back in April 2021). Nov-20-21    EdwinKorir: True others have been high ranked but not when this young Nov-21-21    nazmullincoln: Am I the first one to comment here after Alireza his 2800?? Massive congratulations to my boy. Nov-21-21    MrMelad: Fantastic achievement for young Alireza for reaching 2800+ and #2 in the ratings list Nov-21-21    virginmind: Fantastic indeed. This is almost strange. Will he be able to confirm and get to the top? If he did it this far so quickly, who am I to doubt it? Bravo! Nov-21-21    ndg2: A truly astonishing result, with a bit of help in the last round by his opponent ;-) Congrats, "Prince of Persia" ! Nov-21-21    nok: 8/9 at Euro. Rp 3015 https://chess-results.com/tnr583987... Nov-21-21    Albertan: Alireza Firouzja Youngest Chess Player Ever To Break 2800: https://www.chess.com/news/view/ali... Nov-21-21    parmetd: The youngest 2800 in history. The 15th person to cross the line. Plus #2 in the world. Huge congratulations are in order! In a normal month, +29.1 would be impressive but Firo going 33.8 to 2803.8 is just wow! Shirov: +5 -0 =14 for 12/19 +29.1 back over 2700. 2702! Firo: +13 -1 =6 for 16/20 33.8 2770 to 2803.8! Wow! Unreal. Nov-22-21    Atking: Congratulation to the futur world champion! Nov-22-21    Mississaugan: ditto! Nov-22-21    Mississaugan: The Alexander the Great of world chess! Nov-22-21    fabelhaft: Elo performance of the last dozen months: 1. Firouzja 2856 2. Carlsen 2839 3. Giri 2787 Nov-22-21    fisayo123: The next great genius in the world of chess has arrived. I have no words for this kid anymore. 2800 - 18 years 5 months 13 days Nov-22-21    metatron2: Indeed an amazing achievement for Firouzja: crossing 2800 rating and getting #2 spot in the world at such young age. His performance in his last two tourneys is an indication on how fast he makes progress and how far he can go (I mean <3015> elo performance over 9 rounds..). It seems like the covid19 pandemic actually did well for Firouzja. He said that he just trained all day long when he was locked at home, and he played so many online rapid tourneys against the elite, that gave him invaluable experience <without paying> in (rapid) elo points, and he wouldn't have that many (rapid) super-tourneys over-the-board without covid19. Nov-22-21    Kurakotsaba: congratulations👍🏻🎯😉😀 well done, alireza..🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👍🏻 you've eclipsed some of these wannabes-pretenders... . Nov-22-21    Whitehat1963: Wow! Just like that, he’s number two in the world! I’ve been expecting big things from him for a while now, but not so soon! He’s ahead of schedule! He might be the next to play for the title! Nov-22-21    macer75: <Kurakotsaba: congratulations👍🏻🎯😉😀 well done, alireza..🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👍🏻 you've eclipsed some of these wannabes-pretenders... .> Who are some of those "wannabes-pretenders" you refer to? Nov-22-21    Albertan: Firouzja is number 2 in the World.We just have enough to deal with it: https://worldchess.com/news/all/fir... Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 19) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 13 OF 19 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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