2003 - Today
Alireza Firouzja (Persian: علیرضا فیروزجا, pronounced [æliːɾeˈzɑː fiːɾuːzˈdʒɑː]; 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alireza Firouzja has received more than 1,559,579 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alireza Firouzja is the 232nd most popular chess player (up from 308th in 2019), the 412th most popular biography from Iran (up from 428th in 2019) and the most popular Iranian Chess Player.
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Among chess players, Alireza Firouzja ranks 232 out of 374. Before him are Xu Yuhua, Teimour Radjabov, Peter Leko, Israel Albert Horowitz, Walter Browne, and Joël Lautier. After him are Zdenko Kožul, Elina Danielian, Raymond Keene, Lev Psakhis, Alisa Galliamova, and Manuel Aaron.
1976 - Present
HPI: 38.12
Rank: 226
1987 - Present
HPI: 38.09
Rank: 227
1979 - Present
HPI: 37.81
Rank: 228
1907 - 1973
HPI: 37.69
Rank: 229
1949 - 2015
HPI: 37.68
Rank: 230
1973 - Present
HPI: 37.39
Rank: 231
2003 - Present
HPI: 37.05
Rank: 232
1966 - Present
HPI: 36.99
Rank: 233
1978 - Present
HPI: 36.99
Rank: 234
1948 - Present
HPI: 36.74
Rank: 235
1958 - Present
HPI: 36.65
Rank: 236
1972 - Present
HPI: 36.61
Rank: 237
1935 - Present
HPI: 36.60
Rank: 238
Among people born in 2003, Alireza Firouzja ranks 10. Before him are Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, Yusuf Demir, Eileen Gu, Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco, Aidan Gallagher, and Prince Gabriel of Belgium. After him are Carlos Alcaraz, Jude Bellingham, Bhad Bhabie, Ilaix Moriba, Florian Wirtz, and Alena Kostornaia.
2003 - Present
HPI: 39.75
Rank: 4
2003 - Present
HPI: 38.99
Rank: 5
2003 - Present
HPI: 38.65
Rank: 6
2003 - Present
HPI: 38.39
Rank: 7
2003 - Present
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 8
2003 - Present
HPI: 37.18
Rank: 9
2003 - Present
HPI: 37.05
Rank: 10
2003 - Present
HPI: 36.95
Rank: 11
2003 - Present
HPI: 36.21
Rank: 12
2003 - Present
HPI: 35.84
Rank: 13
2003 - Present
HPI: 34.50
Rank: 14
2003 - Present
HPI: 34.41
Rank: 15
2003 - Present
HPI: 33.83
Rank: 16
Among people born in Iran, Alireza Firouzja ranks 412 out of 528. Before him are Mehdi Taremi (1992), Hossein Shahabi (1967), Masoud Shojaei (1984), Mohammad Reza Golzar (1977), Saeed Jalili (1965), and Samira Makhmalbaf (1980). After him are Niki Karimi (1971), Nasser Shabani (1957), Shermine Shahrivar (1982), Mehrdad Minavand (1975), Alireza Beiranvand (1992), and Saeid Marouf (1985).
1992 - Present
HPI: 37.66
Rank: 406
1967 - 2023
HPI: 37.63
Rank: 407
1984 - Present
HPI: 37.57
Rank: 408
1977 - Present
HPI: 37.52
Rank: 409
1965 - Present
HPI: 37.45
Rank: 410
1980 - Present
HPI: 37.36
Rank: 411
2003 - Present
HPI: 37.05
Rank: 412
1971 - Present
HPI: 36.64
Rank: 413
1957 - 2020
HPI: 36.50
Rank: 414
1982 - Present
HPI: 36.46
Rank: 415
1975 - 2021
HPI: 36.40
Rank: 416
1992 - Present
HPI: 36.38
Rank: 417
1985 - Present
HPI: 36.26
Rank: 418
Among chess players born in Iran, Alireza Firouzja ranks 1. After him are Atousa Pourkashiyan (1988).