Alireza Firouzja is now the French no. 1

World no. 12 Alireza Firouzja is now officially a French player. The 18-year-old Iranian-born chess prodigy had been living in Chartres, France since 2019 and was recently granted French citizenship. At the time he was still playing under the FIDE flag, but his transfer to the French Chess Federation is now complete, meaning that Firouzja will go into a World Cup match against Andrew Tang or Javokhir Sindarov next Thursday 15th July as the French no. 1.

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