Teenager beats India’s Vidit Gujrathi in a speed play-off at the Prague Masters
The chess world’s rising star Alireza Firouzja, aged 16 and exiled from
Iran, won his first major trophy last night when he defeated India’s Vidit Gujrathi, 2-0 in a speed play-off in the Prague Masters.
The pair had finished in a five-way tie on 5/9 with Jan-Krzysztof Duda of Poland, David Anton of
Spain and Sam Shankland of the US. Firouzja and Vidit had the best tie-break scores so contested the play-off.