| Amin Tabatabaei | |
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 Amin Tabatabaei in 2023 | |
| Full name | Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei |
| Country | Iran |
| Born | 5 February 2001 (2001-02-05) (age 23) Tehran, Iran |
| Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
| FIDE rating | 2695 (December 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2718 (July 2024) |
| Ranking | No. 37 (December 2024) |
| Peak ranking | No. 24 (July 2024) |
Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei (Persian: محمدامین طباطبایی; born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He has represented Iran in two Chess Olympiads (2018 and 2022).
Chess career
Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his international master (IM) title in 2015 and was awarded his grandmaster (GM) title by FIDE in April 2018. In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished seventeenth out of ninety-two, scoring 5½/9 (+5–3=1), earning an additional GM norm in the process.
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. He won the Biel Masters in July 2019 with 7/9 (+6–1=2) and Josef Kupper Memorial in August 2019 with 6/7 (+5–0=2). 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.
He qualified again for the Chess World Cup 2021 where, ranked 86th, he eliminated 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, 11th-seed Pentala Harikrishna 1.5-0.5 in the fourth round, and Haik M. Martirosyan 2.5-1.5 in the fifth round, before losing to Vladimir Fedoseev 0.5-1.5 in the quarter-final. By reaching the quarter-finals, he secured a place in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022 tournament.
Through February and March 2022, Tabatabaei played in the FIDE Grand Prix 2022. In the second leg, he tied for second with Nikita Vitiugov in Pool B with a 3/6 result. In the third leg, he won his pool with a 3.5/6 result, advancing to the semifinals to face Wesley So and ultimately earning sixth place in the tournament series overall.
In December 2022, Tabatabaei won 3rd place in the 2022 Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival after losing armageddon in 2nd place playoffs to Hans Niemann.
References
- 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.
- "Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival 2022". chess.com.
External links
- M. Amin Tabatabaei rating card at FIDE
- M. Amin Tabatabaei player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei player profile at Chess.com
| Asian Games Champions in Chess | |
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| Men's individual rapid | |
| Women's individual rapid | |
| Men's team classical | |
| Women's team classical | |
| Mixed team classical | |
- 2001 births
- Living people
- Chess players from Tehran
- Iranian chess players
- Chess Grandmasters
- Chess players at the 2022 Asian Games
- 21st-century chess players
- Asian Games gold medalists for Iran
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games medalists in chess
- Asian Games competitors for Iran
- Chess Olympiad competitors