Alireza Firouzja

About Alireza Firouzja

Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علیرضا فیروزجا, pronounced [æliːɾeˈzɒː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɒː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest player to have surpassed a FIDE rating of 2800, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months (192 days). A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster title at 14. At age 16, Firouzja became the second-youngest 2700-rated player. In 2021, at age 18, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship.

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