The No 1-ranked teenage player opts to play under Fide’s flag at the world speed chess championships in Moscow
Alireza Firouzja, the 16-year-old Iranian, who ranks as the world’s top teenager, is competing this weekend under the international chess body Fide’s flag rather than obey directives from Tehran. Officials wanted to bar him from the $1m, 206-player world rapid and blitz championships now under way in Moscow, where Magnus Carlsen is the No 1 seed and Firouzja began with 3.5/5, to prevent any pairings against Israelis.
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