Amin Tabatabaei
| Amin Tabatabaei | |
|---|---|
 Amin Tabatabaei, Karlsruhe 2016 | |
| Full name | Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei |
| Country | Iran |
| Born | 5 February 2001 (age 23) Tehran, Iran |
| Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
| FIDE rating | 2712 (August 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2642 (September 2019) |
| Ranking | No. 26 (August 2024) |
Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei[1] (born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian chess grandmaster (2018).
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]
He qualified again for the Chess World Cup 2021 where, ranked 86th, he defeated Basheer Al Qudaimi 2.5-1.5 in the first round, Ferenc Berkes by the same score in the second round, 22nd-seed Yu Yangyi 1.5-0.5 in the third round and 11th-seed Pentala Harikrishna 1.5-0.5 in the fourth round. In the fifth round he beat Haik Martirosyan 2.5-1.5 to earn himself a place in the 2021 FIDE Grand Prix. [11]
References
- ^ Staff writer(s) (19 December 2017). "Iran finishes third at FIDE World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2017". Press TV.
- ^ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting, 26-29 April 2015, Chengdu, CHN FIDE
- ^ 1st quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2018, April 6-9, Minsk, Belarus FIDE
- ^ Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A". Chess Results.
- ^ Staff writer(s) (28 February 2018). "Aeroflot Open 2018 A: Tabatabaei M.Amin". Chess Results.
- ^ Chase, Chris (4 March 2018). "Chess notes". The Boston Globe.
- ^ 17th Asian Continental Chess Championships (2nd Manny Pacquiao Cup) - OPEN: TABATABAEI M.Amin Chess-Results
- ^ "Tabatabaei wins Biel Masters 2019". ChessBase. 3 August 2019.
- ^ "Tabatabaei wins Josef Kupper Memorial 2019". Chess24. 18 August 2019.
- ^ Second Round of the World Cup is over FIDE
- ^ "Tournament tree — FIDE World Cup 2021". worldcup-results.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-07-20.
External links
- Amin Tabatabaei player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Amin Tabatabaei rating card at FIDE
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