Alireza Firouzja

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Alireza Firouzja, 2018
Association until December 2019 Iran ; since December 2019: FIDE IranIran 
Born June 18, 2003
Bābol , Iran
title International Master (2016)
Grand Master (2018)
Current  Elo rating 2728 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2728 (March 2020)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alireza Firouzja ( Persian علیرضا فیروزجاه; * June 18, 2003 in Bābol ) is an Iranian chess player . Together with Parham Maghsoodloo (born 2000) and Amin Tabatabaei (born 2001) he belongs to a group of young, ambitious Iranian chess grandmasters. Since December 2019 he no longer competes under the Iranian flag. He lives in France with his father.

Career

In February 2016, at the age of just twelve, he won the Iranian chess championship, and in 2019 he was again Iranian champion. With the Iranian national team, he took part in the Asian team championship in Abu Dhabi in 2016 , where he won the individual ranking on the fourth board, as well as in the 2016 Chess Olympiad in Baku and 2018 in Batumi .

Firouzja has held the title of International Master since September 2016 , and he fulfilled the required standards in December 2015 at the Qatar Masters in Doha , in January 2016 at the Iranian Individual Championship in Tehran and in April 2016 at the Asian Team Championship in Abu Dhabi. In March 2018 he received the grandmaster title. In the same year he arrived in the rapid chess -WM in Saint Petersburg as number 169 of the seedings a surprising sixth place, only half a point behind the classical world champion Magnus Carlsen and a whole behind the tournament winner Daniil Dubov .

In August 2019, his Elo rating exceeded 2700 for the first time. At 16, he is the second youngest player to have succeeded after the Chinese Wei Yi .

Since the Iranian state forbids its athletes to compete against Israeli athletes, Firouzja decided to take part in the tournament at the Rapid and Blitz Chess World Cup 2019 under the neutral flag of FIDE . In rapid chess, he won the vice world title behind Magnus Carlsen.

In April 2020 Firouzja won the Banter Blitz Cup organized by the online chess platform Chess24 (3 minutes to think about). The tournament started in September 2019 with 132 players. In the final, Firouzja defeated Magnus Carlsen after hard-fought games with 8.5: 7.5.

Elo development

Web links

Commons : Alireza Firouzja  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chessdailynews.com , accessed on September 11, 2016
  2. ^ Johannes Fischer: Alireza Firouzja wins Iranian championship. In: ChessBase . February 11, 2019, accessed February 13, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Alireza Firouzja's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ↑ Team result Iran at the Chess Olympiad 2016 , accessed on September 11, 2016
  5. ↑ Team result Iran at the 2018 Chess Olympiad , accessed on March 1, 2019
  6. ↑ IM application to FIDE (English)
  7. ↑ Chess - Firouzja turns away from Iran. Accessed December 28, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Firouzja, Alireza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 2003
PLACE OF BIRTH Bābol