Amin Tabatabaei

Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei[1] (born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian chess grandmaster (2018).

Amin Tabatabaei
Amin Tabatabaei, Karlsruhe 2016
Full nameSeyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei
CountryIran
Born5 February 2001 (2001-02-05) (age 20)
Tehran, Iran
TitleGrandmaster (2018)
FIDE rating2629 (February 2021)
Peak rating2642 (September 2019)
Ranking147 (April 2020)

Chess career

Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his international master (IM) title in 2015[2] and was awarded his grandmaster (GM) title by FIDE in April 2018.[3] In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished seventeenth out of ninety-two,[4] scoring 5½/9 (+5–3=1),[5] earning an additional GM norm in the process.[6]

Tabatabaei competed in the Asian Chess Championship in December 2018. He finished second on 6½/9 (+4–0=5), and thus qualified for the Chess World Cup 2019.[7] He won the Biel Masters in July 2019 with 7/9 (+6–1=2)[8] and Josef Kupper Memorial in August 2019 with 6/7 (+5–0=2).[9] At the Chess World Cup in September, he defeated Bassem Amin in the first round, then was eliminated by Jeffery Xiong in the second round.[10]

References
  1. Staff writer(s) (19 December 2017). "Iran finishes third at FIDE World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2017". Press TV.
  2. 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting, 26-29 April 2015, Chengdu, CHN FIDE
  3. 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus FIDE
  4. Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A". Chess Results.
  5. Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A: Tabatabaei M.Amin". Chess Results.
  6. Chase, Chris (4 March 2018). "Chess notes". The Boston Globe.
  7. 17th Asian Continental Chess Championships (2nd Manny Pacquiao Cup) - OPEN: TABATABAEI M.Amin Chess-Results
  8. "Tabatabaei wins Biel Masters 2019". ChessBase. 3 August 2019.
  9. "Tabatabaei wins Josef Kupper Memorial 2019". Chess24. 18 August 2019.
  10. Second Round of the World Cup is over FIDE


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