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 1,485  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 1,485

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 19 ·  Later Kibitzing> Dec-31-18    Everett: <jb> true!! Jan-12-19    SugarDom: This 15-years old is now higher rated in bullet in Chess.com than Nakamura. Jan-12-19    Caissanist: <Youth is ideally spent playing in the sun and socializing!> I told my daughter that, and she sent me this meme: https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/a... . Jan-13-19    zanzibar: <caissanist> good for a chuckle! Feb-05-19    fisayo123: Firouzja won his National Championship with a score of <9/11> (7 wins 4 draws). https://twitter.com/FollowChessApp/... Feb-13-19    Penguincw: (spelled Alireza Firoozja here) Anyway, he wins the Fajr Cup Championship. http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83207010 Feb-18-19    aliasniamor: And now has cracked the top 100 with a live rating of 2656.5 after having played 28 games in 25 days !! He'll next play the Aeroflot Open if I understood correctly. Hope he'll post a good performance there as well :) Feb-20-19    Penguincw: Yes he has. Also first time ever Iran has had 2 players in the top 100 live ratings. At age 15, he is the youngest player in the top 100. http://www.irna.ir/en/News/83213041 Apr-24-19    The Rocket: This boy might be the next world champion. I was totally wrong about Giri, though, so who knows. Alizera impressed me greatly, even in bullet chess. He is a force to be reckon with. Supreme tactical player with lots of ingenious concepts. Apr-27-19    MissScarlett: I hear he got beat by a girl. If he'd lost to a Jew, that would be serious. Jun-13-19    rcs784: Forgive me if I'm a little late to the game here, but what do you think the odds are that this kid is the one destined to finally take down Magnus in the WC eventually? Also, you left off Caruana on your list of youngest (men's) national champions; he won his first Italian championship in 2007 at age 15. Jun-13-19    moronovich: <rcs784: Forgive me if I'm a little late to the game here, but what do you think the odds are that this kid is the one destined to finally take down Magnus in the WC eventually?> Odds 33-100.1-3 % and that is actually a high chance. Jun-17-19    alexmagnus: At world number 55 (live) he is the highest ranked teenager now (since Wei Yi turned 20 on June 2). Think of it: there are no teenagers in the top 50. Strange. Often there is one in the top <10>. So much for chess getting younger. Jun-20-19    gokusano: Nearly made it. There's the next time for a youngster like you. Those approaching 3o and above may bid goodbye with their ambition to dethrone Magnus. The younger ones have the greater chance. Jul-15-19    Xenon Oxide: So he beat Carlsen on lichess at least Jul-15-19    parmetd: Chess is getting younger. Deny if it you want but it annoys the rest of us. Jul-22-19    alexmagnus: <parmetd> It is not. See the cited number of teenagers on top, or, say, the average age of the top 10 (which is always getting back ad forth around 30 plus or minus 2). The perception of chess getting younger comes from chess having been exceptionally old in the 70s (when most of the top 10 was over 40). Which, in turn, was due a full generation of players never making it to the top. Go a decade back and you see "young" chess again. Jul-22-19    alexmagnus: <which is always getting back ad forth around 30 plus or minus 2> For example, 29.2 now if you average the ages in full years. If you average exact ages, it will be a bit higher. Jul-22-19    alexmagnus: For comparison, in July 2000 the average age (in calendar years - which means, in full years it would be even slightly lower) was 28.7 Jul-22-19    alexmagnus: I picked July 2000 as a random point as it is the earliest list on the FIDE website Jul-22-19    alexmagnus: Another decade earlier, in January 1990, it was 32.2 in full years on Chessmetrics,so high mainly due to the 58-year-old Korchnoi (the second oldest top 10 player was Karpov at 38!). Jul-22-19    alexmagnus: In 1960 it was 33.7. With Botvinnik and Keres pushing it high (but so did Anand in our era recently). Jul-24-19    fisayo123: The kid is coming. Jul-28-19    fisayo123: He just became the 2nd player of all to cross 2700 and he doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon. Jul-29-19    SugarDom: Future world champion. Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 19) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 2 OF 19 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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