CHESS PLAYER

Alireza Firouzja

2003 - Today

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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. A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster title at 14. At 16, Firouzja became the second-youngest 2700-rated player. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2024). Alireza Firouzja is the 298th most popular chess player (down from 268th in 2024), the 498th most popular biography from Iran (down from 483rd in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alireza Firouzja ranks 297 out of 461. Before him are Yoshiharu Habu, Eduardas Rozentalis, Ju Wenjun, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Ivan Cheparinov. After him are Hou Yifan, Sergei Movsesian, Gabriel Sargissian, Vidit Gujrathi, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Ilya Smirin, and Karen Asrian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 2003, Alireza Firouzja ranks 35. Before him are Marc Casadó, Marcos Leonardo, Sho Morita, Loïs Boisson, Álvaro Carreras, and Lucas Beraldo. After him are Benjamin Šeško, Yusuf Demir, Renato Veiga, Malo Gusto, Prince Gabriel of Belgium, and Pablo Torre.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Alireza Firouzja ranks 492 out of 631. After him are Babak Zanjani (1974), Killing of Neda Agha-Soltan (null), Helly Luv (1988), Karim Ansarifard (1990), Atousa Pourkashiyan (1988), Abbas Jadidi (1969), Masoud Shojaei (1984), Andranik Teymourian (1983), Abdolmalek Rigi (1979), Rasoul Khadem (1972), Parvin Ardalan (1967), and Laleh (1982).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Iran

Among chess players born in Iran, Alireza Firouzja ranks 1. After him are Atousa Pourkashiyan (1988), Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (1997), Parham Maghsoodloo (2000), Dorsa Derakhshani (1998), and Amin Tabatabaei (2001).

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