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-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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alireza Firouzja has received more than 1,933,436 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Alireza Firouzja is the 267th most popular chess player (down from 234th in 2019), the 482nd most popular biography from Iran (down from 412th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Chess Player.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Alireza Firouzja ranks 267 out of 461. Before him are Alexander Chernin, Raymond Keene, Manuel Aaron, Peter Leko, Israel Albert Horowitz, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. After him are Cristina Adela Foișor, Kateryna Lagno, Suat Atalık, Gabriel Sargissian, Ivan Sokolov, and Evgeny Agrest.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 2003, Alireza Firouzja ranks 17. Before him are Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, Levi Colwill, Prince Gabriel of Belgium, An Yu-jin, Holger Rune, and Benjamin Šeško. After him are Salma Paralluelo, Iñaki Godoy, Bhad Bhabie, Yusuf Demir, Hans Niemann, and Park Ji-hu.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Alireza Firouzja ranks 482 out of 631. Before him are Rosie Malek-Yonan (1965), Mohammad Reza Golzar (1977), Saeed Jalili (1965), Shermine Shahrivar (1982), Masoud Shojaei (1984), and Behrang Safari (1985). After him are Samira Makhmalbaf (1980), Zahra Eshraghi (1964), Mahsa Amini (1999), Alireza Beiranvand (1992), Rahman Rezaei (1975), and Abdolmalek Rigi (1979).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Iran

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

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