Chess Championship, Shirazi managed only one draw from 17 games, finishing last.

He subsequently made an appearance in the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer.

He is introduced as "Grandmaster Shirazi" but his actual title is International Master, awarded in 1978.

As of 2020, Shirazi plays online on the chess site Lichess.org [6] On the September 2019 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2347.

In this game, Kamran Shirazi boldly plays an extremely sharp line regarded as dubious for Black (White has won many brilliancies in this line), and beats a computer with it: Fidelity S2 computer-Shirazi, 1986[7] 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.Qg4 Qf6?!