Amin Tabatabaei
Seyyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He is the second best player in Iran.Chess career
Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his international master title in 2015 and was awarded his grandmaster 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, earning an additional GM norm in the process.
Tabatabaei competed in the Asian Chess Championship in December 2018. He finished second on 6½/9, and thus qualified for the Chess World Cup 2019. He won the Biel Masters in July 2019 with 7/9 and Josef Kupper Memorial in August 2019 with 6/7. 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.
