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 14 OF 19 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-22-21    fisayo123: We need to change that picture and get this man better pictures. Nov-22-21    MissScarlett: Think how Jan-Krzysztof Duda feels. Nov-23-21    fabelhaft: Or the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi Nov-23-21    nazmullincoln: Those too much hyped Indian juniors you talking about? Kurakotsava? Nov-23-21    virginmind: Last FIDE rating 2728? That was an year ago. Nov-23-21    fabelhaft: Greatest French player since Alekhine and Spassky. Nov-23-21    MissScarlett: Don't hold back - since Napoleon Bonaparte! Nov-23-21    ndg2: <fabelhaft><Greatest French player since Alekhine and Spassky>I see what you did here :-) Nov-23-21    metatron2: Its probably more legitimate to consider Napoleon as a great chess player than to consider Alekhine, Spassky and Firouzja as real French chess players. Nov-23-21    Whitehat1963: Now that Firouzja will be invited to all the major tournaments for the next couple of years, we’ll see what he can do against the truly best players. It’s always exciting to see what the new young guns can do! Already, he’s showing himself to be better than the likes of Duda, Wei, and Rapport. Nov-24-21    nazmullincoln: He officially became French citizen today. He became citizen few months months ago, but today it was official,nwith a ceremony Nov-24-21    Kurakotsaba: Does he speak fluent French...now? Just like MVL, Bacrot...of course he speak Farsi...the language of these theocratic mullahs-ayattollahs of Iran... Nov-24-21    nok: <He officially became French citizen today.> 2300: FM 2400: IM 2500: GM 2800: EU immigration requirement Nov-24-21    ndg2: 2900 Besting Carlsen Dec-01-21    ndg2: Today it's official: ELO 2804 and #2 spot. Time to update "Last FIDE rating"? Dec-01-21    harrylime: The Next WC .. The only player on this planet Carlsen is genuinely afraid of Dec-06-21    CountryGirl: Firouzja seems as good as Carlsen. A Norwegian and an Iranian at the very top, who'd a thunk it? I know 20 years ago I couldn't have imagined it. Over the next 10 years Magnus will progress towards age 41, Alireza to 28. Perhaps Magnus can somehow use Alireza's competition to become unimaginably strong - over 2900. Or else he either retires or Alireza beats him. Dec-06-21    SChesshevsky: <Firouzja seems as good as Carlsen.> Not sure about that. But he's steadily improving. He's certainly proved he can pretty much dominate second-tier top GM's. Major plusses are he's young and got into the candidates. Think the key is, as I mentioned in a previous (2020?) Firouzja kibitz, how does he consistently do vs. other top 5's and top 10's. 2022 and especially the candidates could be an important year. Dec-07-21    Albertan: Alireza Firouzja surpasses 2800 mark in December rating list: https://www.fide.com/news/1457 Dec-08-21    ndg2: <CountryGirl><Firouzja seems as good as Carlsen>I'm a big Firouzja fan, but honestly, if there he played a match with Carlsen right now, Firouzja would lose. He has still has a long way to go to stabilize in every phase of the game. We know he can win not just against 2600-ish players, but also against 2700 GMs. The problem are the top 10, the kind of players he will face in the candidates. There the task isn't so much to win with white but not to lose with black. And he still can lose quite unceremoniously as the game with Caruana in the Grand Swiss has shown. He was also in grave danger against Grischuk in the European Team Championship (Grischuk vs Firouzja, 2021). Alireza needs a Kramnik/Carlsen-esque draw weapon against e4 and I don't think, Caro-Kann is really up to the task at the absolute top. Dec-08-21    Jambow: I knew he was good but this is pretty extraordinary to say the least... Dec-08-21    MissScarlett: <Interesting interview with Timman, who is saying the Wijk aan Zee organisers couldn't meet Firouzja's financial demands, which is why he is missing in the 2022 event.> https://twitter.com/TarjeiJS/status... Dec-09-21    offramp: Naka and Giri have missed the World Championship match bus. I think that Firoizja or a Chinaman could be the next challenger. Dec-11-21    Scuvy: Responding to ndg2's spot-on assessment, one possibility for a good drawing weapon would be the Marshall Attack in the Ruy Lopez. It may not be what Kramnik or Carlsen would use, but as Bogdan Lalic stated in his excellent book on the Marshall, Garry Kasparov made a point of not allowing it. Dec-11-21    ndg2: ^This! Levon Aronian once said, he plays 1.d4 for king attacks and as black the Marshall Attack for a draw ;-) Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 19) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 14 OF 19 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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