Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei (born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian chess grandmaster (2018).
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Full name | Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei |
Country | Iran |
Born | 5 February 2001 (2001-02-05) (age 21) Tehran, Iran |
Title | Grandmaster (2018) |
FIDE rating | 2650 (May 2022) |
Peak rating | 2650 (May 2022) |
Ranking | No. 100 (May 2022) |
Peak ranking | No. 100 (May 2022) |
Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his international master (IM) title in 2015[1] and was awarded his grandmaster (GM) title by FIDE in April 2018.[2] In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished seventeenth out of ninety-two,[3] scoring 5½/9 (+5–3=1),[4] earning an additional GM norm in the process.[5]
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.[6] He won the Biel Masters in July 2019 with 7/9 (+6–1=2)[7] and Josef Kupper Memorial in August 2019 with 6/7 (+5–0=2).[8] 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.[9]
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.[10]
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.
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