Rating of 2804
European team: 18-year-old ex-Iranian Firouzja breaks chess record
Alireza Firouzja during the last round of the Tata Steel chess tournament in the village house in January this year. With a new rating of 2804, the 18-year-old is the youngest player to date to be listed above 2800.
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At the European Team Championship in Terme Catež, Slovenia, 18-year-old Alireza Firouzja broke a new chess record. It goes down in chess history with an Elo number of 2804.
With seven wins and two draws, the Frenchman Alireza Firouzja achieved one of the best results in chess history at the European Team Championships in Terme Catež, Slovenia. Only Bobby Fischer in his 6-0 victories in the candidate competition victories in 1971 and Fabiano Caruana in Saint Louis in 2014 played arithmetically even stronger.
Youngest chess player with an Elo rating of over 2800
With a new rating of 2804, the 18-year-old is the youngest player to date to be listed above 2800. In the world rankings, only world champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway is ahead of him with 2856. Firouzja, who broke away from the Iranian Chess Federation two years ago, appeared on the top board for France for the first time and led his new team to second place in the European team behind Ukraine and ahead of Poland.
Ten years after their European championship title, the selection of the German Chess Federation remained in line with expectations with tenth place. In the women’s category, Russia won ahead of Georgia and Azerbaijan. The German women finished fifth.
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