In recent years, Alireza Firouzja has won several tournaments and titles as a young chess Grandmaster from Iran. His family was an avid player of the game back in Iran. He learned quickly how to play and became interested in becoming an expert player himself—he even received lessons from grandmasters like GM Ilia Smirnov!
His career started out when he was 11 years old and has continued through his early teenage years where he played in several tournaments including the World Youth Chess Olympiad held every other year in different locations around the world including Armenia, China etc.. During this time period he also competed at various national championships winning several medals along with being a member of various national teams representing Iran during international events.|
When he started chess, Kasparov was the only famous chess player he knew. Firouzja follows football and is a fan of Juventus. Alireza said earlier: I never entered chess for money, and the only thing I think about is the world championship.
Alireza Firouzja is a chess grandmaster from Iran. He is currently ranked number one in the world and has been for four years running, making him the youngest person to ever achieve that rank.
Firouzja won his first international tournament at just 13 years old, beating all of his opponents in the final round before defeating Teimour Radjabov in an impressively short time span (only 40 moves). At 14 years old he became world champion by beating Vladimir Kramnik in Tehran and then again at 15 at Paris.
Alireza Firouzja, one of the youngest chess super masters in the world, decided to play with the flag of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) ) because the Iranian national chess team had decided not to participate in this tournament which is held in Russia.
Alireza Firouzja has won more than 100 chess games. He has also won 4 tournaments and was the winner of the World Junior Chess Championship in 2006, 2007 and 2008. His most notable win came when he defeated GM Rustam Kasimboev from Uzbekistan 3-1 at the 2009 World Youth Chess Championships.
Firouzja was born on 31 December 1993 in Tehran, Iran. His father was a doctor who taught him how to play chess at an early age and his mother encouraged him too. He began playing competitively when he was eight years old by participating in various tournaments across Iran including Fajr International Youth Chess Championship (2013), Ghaemshahr Open (2014), 26th Iranian-Arabian Cup for Under 20s held in Najaf Kadhimain (2015).
Alireza Firouzja is a young chess grandmaster with lots of potential. He has been winning tournaments since he was 13 years old, and has become one of the most popular players in Iran. Alireza Firouzja won his first major tournament at age 13 when he placed second at the World Youth Championships in 2010. Two years later, he became the youngest Iranian chess player ever to qualify for an FIDE World Cup tournament by placing third in 2012’s event held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (only someone born after 2000 could have achieved this feat).
