Alireza Firouzja on his Fashion Career

Alireza Firouzja gave an interview at the Superbet Chess Classic Romania of the Grand Chess Tour 2023 about his fashion career.
#chess

[Vivungisport]

Its mentally good to have something else, to get a break from chess once in a while.

[atharvakokaje]

Good for him.
Magnus plays football, poker and does that fantasy league thing on the side.
Hikaru and Ian stream, Fabi has a podcast
Lots of players have hobbies.
The new generation player doesn't want to become mentally unstable as Fischer by the all consuming entity of elite level chess. A healthy hobby helps heal wounds from all walks of life.

[sanelprtenjaca]

Chess isn't the only thing in life. I am happy for him.

[whatsinaname]

That's cool. Good for him, but I wish Magnus would've played against him in the WC

[mahmodabdalgafer]

he's really open minded intelligent and it's funny how alot of fans are making fun of him for choosing that direction but look at top chess players don't they look miserable?😂

[AI-xijk]

It’s important to live your life without regrets. For some people it will be: “Why didn’t I play more chess”, while for others it would be the opposite.

[OscarM]

Why is comment section so hateful towards him? It's his life he gets to decide what he wants to do, besides why y'all doing nothing but type shit on a yt video. Atleast he's making a living for himself

[amrimoussa]

So he is not a new fischer who has nothing else but chess

[con_el_maestro]

I love that Hikaru, Magnus, Fabi and now Alireza are doing something different from chess which could mean more content for us

[gojra]

He wants to live his life the way he wants and enjoy it, meanwhile people in this comment section : noooo just play chess, you must be the next bobby fischer

[kevinwellwrought]

If chess is not such a big and reliable thing for Alireza who is one of the best the world has ever seen then we mere mortals should simply forget chess altogether!

[nahida]

I have seen lot of people hate him for his fashion side career and calling him names which he doesnt deserve, he is still young and chose to try something new and different, experiencing something new, it can be called a break from chess but he never really left chess

[nicbentulan]

This is why Bobby Fischer created 9LX. If 9LX replaces chess at least in classical time then chess players can have 2nd jobs just like the old days eg Botvinnik was an engineer, Bassem Amin is a physician, etc.

[jorgecondorchoasupa]

Me trae al recuerdo al gran Bobby Fischer, declarando en un canal d tv d su país

[tonynippolei]

Connor McGregor on his chess interview career

[badjaeaux]

why not become super grandmaster gigolo as well, it is a brilliant move



- Ali Reza in Paris

[tenningale]

I remember when a reporter asked Kasparov and Karpov if they had any hobbies outside chess, Karpov said something like communism and stamp collecting and Kasparov simply said no. Lol

[RomeluParez]

World #1 Poker player
#2 fashion designer
#3 Sreamer
#4 wcc
#5 pie
#6 podcas
well, chess has come a long way😂

[bolte]

The results was expected, no one plays blitz much as magnus and alireza, , it shows they are just blitz player

[karenmueller]

he has a similar manner/vibe to Yves St. Laurent