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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 different languages on Wikipedia. Alireza Firouzja is the 294th most popular chess player (down from 268th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Iran (down from 484th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alireza Firouzja ranks 294 out of 461. Before him are Salomėja Zaksaitė, 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, and Ilya Smirin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 2003, Alireza Firouzja ranks 29. Before him are Park Ji-hu, Bhad Bhabie, Levi Colwill, Marcos Leonardo, Sho Morita, and Álvaro Carreras. After him are Benjamin Šeško, Yusuf Demir, Malo Gusto, Prince Gabriel of Belgium, Pablo Torre, and Ilaix Moriba.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Alireza Firouzja ranks 485 out of 631. Before him are Ashkan Dejagah (1986), Roya Hakakian (1966), Shermine Shahrivar (1982), Mohsen Namjoo (1976), Ehsan Hajsafi (1990), and Taraneh Javanbakht (1974). After him are Babak Zanjani (1974), Helly Luv (1988), Karim Ansarifard (1990), Atousa Pourkashiyan (1988), Masoud Shojaei (1984), and Andranik Teymourian (1983).

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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), and Dorsa Derakhshani (1998).

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