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A chess prodigy, Firouzja won the Iranian Chess Championship at age 12 and earned the Grandmaster title at 14. At 16, Firouzja became the second-youngest 2700-rated player and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rapid Chess Championship. In November 2021, at 18, he won the FIDE Grand Swiss tournament and an individual gold medal at the European Team Chess Championship. He won a bronze medal at the 2021 World Blitz Chess Championship. Firouzja left the Iranian Chess Federation in 2019, because the country's longstanding policy against competing with Israelis presented an obstacle to tournament success.[4] He played under the FIDE flag until mid-2021 when he became a French citizen and began representing France, where he had already been living.