Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei (born 5 February 2001) is an Iranian

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grandmaster (2018).

Chess career

Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his

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(IM) title in 2015 and was awarded his grandmaster (GM) title by

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in April 2018. In February 2018, he participated in the

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. He finished seventeenth out of ninety-two, scoring 5½/9 (+5–3=1), earning an additional GM

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in the process. Tabatabaei competed in the

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in December 2018. He finished second on 6½/9 (+4–0=5), and thus qualified for the

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. 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

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in the first round, then was eliminated by

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in the second round. He qualified again for the

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where, ranked 86th, he eliminated Basheer Al Qudaimi 2.5-1.5 in the first round,

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by the same score in the second round, 22nd-seed Yu Yangyi 1.5-0.5 in the third round, 11th-seed

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1.5-0.5 in the fourth round, and

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2.5-1.5 in the fifth round, before losing to

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0.5-1.5 in the quarter-final. By reaching the quarter-finals, he secured a place in the

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tournament. Through February and March 2022, Tabatabaei played in the

. In the second leg, he tied for second with

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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

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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

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