FMMohammad Mehdi Abbasi Abeluie

Mohammad Mehdi Abbasi Abeluie began learning chess in Neka at six, studying with Seyed Abdullah Kowsari while attending Tarbiat primary school. Within six months, he scored seven wins in nine games at Iran's under-eight championship and finished among the leading six players. He won the national under-ten championship in Sari in 2022. By early 2025, when the Gilan chess association celebrated his achievement, he had become a FIDE Master at twelve. He won the under-twelve rapid gold medal at the 2025 ISF Gymnasiade in Zlatibor, Serbia. Later that year he took second place in the under-eighteen blitz section of Iran's age-group festival.