page_title: Alireza Firouzja
hierarchical_section_title: Alireza Firouzja
caption_attribution_description: English: Alireza Firouzja on the World Rapid and Blitz 2018
context_page_description: Alireza Firouzja is an Iranian chess prodigy. He won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12, and earned the grandmaster title at the age of 14. He is the second-youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700, accomplishing this aged 16 years and 1 month.
  As of November 2019, Firouzja was the No. 1 ranked Iranian player and the No. 1 U16 player in the world with a FIDE rating of 2723. In December 2019, Firouzja announced that he would no longer play under the Iranian flag, after Iran withdrew its players from the 2019 World Rapid and Blitz Championship to uphold their ban against Iranians playing against Israelis. He is currently based in France and announced in early 2020 his intention to play under the French flag.
context_section_description: Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علی‌رضا فیروزجا‎, [æliːɾezɑː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɑː]; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian chess prodigy. He won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12, and earned the grandmaster title at the age of 14. He is the second-youngest player ever to reach a rating of 2700 (after Wei Yi), accomplishing this aged 16 years and 1 month.
  As of November 2019, Firouzja was the No. 1 ranked Iranian player and the No. 1 U16 player in the world with a FIDE rating of 2723. In December 2019, Firouzja announced that he would no longer play under the Iranian flag, after Iran withdrew its players from the 2019 World Rapid and Blitz Championship to uphold their ban against Iranians playing against Israelis. He is currently based in France and announced in early 2020 his intention to play under the French flag.
caption: Firouzja in 2018
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