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| Jul-31-19 | | dwavechess: He is getting close..is he going to hit a wall like Wei Yi? Seems probably a danger to Magnus in years |
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| Jul-31-19 | | SugarDom: He got beaten by Wei Yi in the Chess.com speed chess championship, but Firouzja is 4 years younger. |
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| Sep-19-19 | | OrangeTulip: Firouzja has my sympathy, coming from the land of Zarathustra ( how does one spell that?).
Unlike the friends of Trump, S Arabia and Qatar, Iran does not finance the extremist salafist in our country ( the Netherlands) and other countries in Europe. The fury against Iran has all to do with oil and weapons, in my humble opinion. |
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| Sep-19-19 | | Nietzowitsch: <OT> 'Thus' spoke Zarathustra |
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| Sep-19-19 | | Nietzowitsch: Become who you are! |
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| Oct-23-19 | | greenfield67: Currently dismantling Jorge Cori in their match at Hoogeveen. 2726 live rating, with a bullet. Give him the Candidates wildcard! |
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Oct-23-19
 | | keypusher: <greenfield67: Currently dismantling Jorge Cori in their match at Hoogeveen. 2726 live rating, with a bullet. Give him the Candidates wildcard!> I feel bad for Cori, who through no fault of his own wound up in a mismatch. Kind of like Fischer-Cardoso back in the day. |
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Oct-23-19
 | | tamar: Just September last year, Firouzja was rated only 2582 and was noticeably worse than his countryman Maghsoodloo, who won World Juniors. Now Firouzja has crossed 2700 and appears to be in in his own class. |
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| Oct-23-19 | | csmath: Persian mathematicians and astronomers were to be credited why we are an advanced western civilization now. Without them the Greek mathematics would have faded away and Indian mathematics would not be known to the West. Not to mention Al Kwarezmi, Al Kujandi and many more. Persia was a cradle of Arab Golden Age and there is no doubt that Iranian people are capable of the highest scientific achievements. And the rest of Central Asia as well. |
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| Oct-23-19 | | Olavi: It's also high time the World Championship returned to Persia after some 1100 years. As every Russian schoolboy knows, the greatest player of all time is Al-Suli. |
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Oct-24-19
| | tamar: It always happens...
Before we bestow the world title to Alireza, today's game against Jorge Cori should be submitted. He thought 7 minutes in this position and played 37...Bd6
click for larger view
allowing 38 Nd7 when the Nf6+ fork must be dealt with. Firouzja gave up the exchange but eventually lost making the score now 3-1 in his favor. |
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| Dec-24-19 | | Caissanist: Firouzja has apparently severed ties with the Iranian chess federation. He lives in Paris, so there is speculation that he will change federations to France soon, though the price would be steep (reportedly more than 50,000 euros). For the moment he is playing under the "FIDE" flag: https://perlenvombodensee.de/2019/1... . |
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| Dec-24-19 | | fisayo123: Good for him. That was the right decision. Nobody wants to be told who and who not to play. |
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Dec-24-19
 | | MissScarlett: <the price would be steep (reportedly more than 50,000 euros)> How so? |
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| Dec-24-19 | | EdwinKorir: Politics will greatly affect this talented generation of Iranians |
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Dec-25-19
 | | Gypsy: <Caissanist: ... He lives in Paris, so there is speculation that he will change federations to France ...> Some news articles also mention US Chess Federation as a possible landing place for him. |
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Dec-26-19
 | | perfidious: Dang, sounds like a bit of the old ultraviolence--USA already have 2700 players who can barely make the team in Olympiads. |
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| Dec-26-19 | | Bratek: https://www.chess.com/news/view/fir... |
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| Dec-28-19 | | fisayo123: 16 year old and 2nd place in the FIDE Rapid World Championship, improving on his 6th place finish last year... Ridiculous. Firouzja just keeps getting better and better. |
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| Dec-28-19 | | 0o0o0o0o0: His bio will be much more than a paragraph in the future. With the external hoo-ha going on and to then deliver the goods getting Silver. Good lad. |
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| Dec-28-19 | | 0o0o0o0o0: @Edwin Koirr - maybe in a positive manner for Firouzja. Once he agrees to join the USA federation they will give him his very own money tree. |
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| Dec-28-19 | | BUNA: <fisayo123: Good for him. That was the right decision. Nobody wants to be told who and who not to play.> The olympic teams of West Germany, the USA, France, the UK et al. didn't take part in the 1980 Olympiade in Moscow because they were told so by their governments. Some west-german sportsmen complained about it but no one changed his federation because of it. And I don't remember hearing any suggestions in that direction. |
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Dec-28-19
 | | AylerKupp: <<MissScarlett> How so?> The requirements for changing federations depends on a number of factors including a transfer fee, whether the previous chess federation agrees to the transfer or not, the amount of time the player has resided in the new federation, and player's rating. They are described in https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B... . In Firouzja's case I think these could be:
(a) A notification fee indicating the desire to transfer federations: € 250. (b) Player's FIDE Title. GM in this case. Then € 5,000 if the player has resided in the new federation for less than 1 year and € 3,500. I don't know how long Firouzja has been residing in France and if indeed that's what he wants his new federation to be. Otherwise, € 5,000. (c) Player's rating. More than 2700. Then the compensation fee to the player's previous generation is € 50,000. <HOWEVER> if the player is playing under the FIDE flag (as I believe Firouzja currently is), the compensation fee is waived if the new federation is a member of FIDE. So best minimum case would be € 250 (notification fee) + € 3,500 (if he chooses France as his new federation and continues to reside in France for a minimum of 1 year) = € 3,750 if he continues to play under the FIDE flag. The worst maximum case would be € 250 (notification fee) + € 5,000 (if he applies to change federations to France and has lived there less than 1 year) + € 50,000 (if he stops playing under the FIDE flag, say he resumes playing under the Iranian flag and then decides to change federations) = € 55,250. I know that doesn't make sense under his current situation but still ... Of course, € 55,250 would be pocket change to Rex Sinquefield. So the USA could have an Olympic team composed of Caruana, So, Dominguez, Nakamura, and Firouzja; the best team that money can buy. The Americans would have fixed world chess! But not in a good way. |
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| Dec-28-19 | | EdwinKorir: Beastly performance by a 16 year old. Maybe Carlsen's successor is here. |
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| Dec-29-19 | | torrefan: See a15-year old create a blitz immortal against a blitz immortal---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4... |
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