IMReza Mahdavi
- FIDE ID
- 12595926
About Reza Mahdavi
Reza Mahdavi grew up in the chess community of Qazvin and trained at the Pars Chess School. In February 2014 he won Iran's under-six championship, beating all nine opponents in a field of 71. He added the Iranian under-ten title in 2017. Show more
Reza Mahdavi grew up in the chess community of Qazvin and trained at the Pars Chess School. In February 2014 he won Iran's under-six championship, beating all nine opponents in a field of 71. He added the Iranian under-ten title in 2017. In 2024 he won silver in the under-17 section of the World Schools Blitz Championship, scoring 8/9. That December, at sixteen, he defeated Nodirbek Abdusattorov in the opening round of the Qatar Masters.
Mahdavi also began winning major online events while still a FIDE master. On Christmas Eve 2024 he won the late Titled Tuesday tournament with an unbeaten 10/11, edging Magnus Carlsen on tiebreak. He drew their individual game and clinched the tournament by beating Sam Sevian with Black in the final round. In 2025 he became Qazvin's first International Master. He won his first Bullet Brawl on May 31 that year.
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Available Games
Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-11-09 (UTC).
Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).
| # | Date | Event | Site | Round | White | Black | Result | Moves | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1851 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Hikaru Nakamura | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 1852 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 8 | Reza Mahdavi | Artem Odegov | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 1853 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 7 | Antoni Kozak | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 49 | Open |
| 1854 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Reza Mahdavi | Jain Kashish Manoj | 1-0 | 35 | Open |
| 1855 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Reza Mahdavi | Eray Kilic | 0-1 | 31 | Open |
| 1856 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 6 | Reza Mahdavi | Gleb Dudin | 1-0 | 37 | Open |
| 1857 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Hikaru Nakamura | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 93 | Open |
| 1858 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Olexandr Bortnyk | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 45 | Open |
| 1859 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Emir Sharshenbekov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 42 | Open |
| 1860 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Reza Mahdavi | Shah Dev | 1-0 | 60 | Open |
| 1861 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Jain Jeet | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 51 | Open |
| 1862 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Roman Novoselov | 1-0 | 28 | Open |
| 1863 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Sultan Al-Zaabi | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 58 | Open |
| 1864 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Reza Mahdavi | Hector Luis Gil Alba | 1-0 | 54 | Open |
| 1865 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Mikhail Pesotskiy | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 80 | Open |
| 1866 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Pedro Ramon Martinez Reyes | 1-0 | 72 | Open |
| 1867 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 11 | Rasmus Svane | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 35 | Open |
| 1868 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 11 | Artem Bardyk | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 35 | Open |
| 1869 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Early | chess.com INT | 10 | Tykhon Cherniaiev | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 1870 | 2024-10-22 | Titled Tue 22nd Oct Late | chess.com INT | 10 | Reza Mahdavi | Krzysztof Raczek | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 1871 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 8 | Martyn Kravtsiv | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 29 | Open |
| 1872 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 7 | Reza Mahdavi | Ilan Schnaider | 1/2-1/2 | 53 | Open |
| 1873 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 6 | Ethan Sheehan | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 55 | Open |
| 1874 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Reza Mahdavi | Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 1875 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Lorena Beatriz Montejo Bello | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 34 | Open |
| 1876 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Artem Dyachuk | 1-0 | 32 | Open |
| 1877 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Ethan Saya | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 41 | Open |
| 1878 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Reza Mahdavi | Derek Wu | 0-1 | 61 | Open |
| 1879 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Phileas Mathieu | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 30 | Open |
| 1880 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Timur Kocharin | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 1881 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Reza Mahdavi | Cristian-Stefan Serban | 1-0 | 35 | Open |
| 1882 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Reza Mahdavi | Antoni Szustakowski | 0-1 | 41 | Open |
| 1883 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Jose Antonio Garrido Diaz | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 43 | Open |
| 1884 | 2024-10-15 | Titled Tue 15th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Vladislav Voitovich | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 37 | Open |
| 1885 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 9 | Reza Mahdavi | Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder | 0-1 | 42 | Open |
| 1886 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Reza Mahdavi | Fabiano Caruana | 1-0 | 82 | Open |
| 1887 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 8 | Dimitris Alexakis | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 40 | Open |
| 1888 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Reza Mahdavi | Khagan Ahmad | 1-0 | 57 | Open |
| 1889 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Aleksandr Rakhmanov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 1890 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 7 | Reza Mahdavi | Bryan Enming Lin | 1-0 | 59 | Open |
| 1891 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 6 | James Morris | Reza Mahdavi | 1/2-1/2 | 82 | Open |
| 1892 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Reza Mahdavi | Denis Lazavik | 0-1 | 35 | Open |
| 1893 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Christos Krallis | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 43 | Open |
| 1894 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Aaravamudhan Balaji | 1-0 | 33 | Open |
| 1895 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Rohit S | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 74 | Open |
| 1896 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Nikita Shandrygin | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 31 | Open |
| 1897 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Mendes Aaron Reeve | 0-1 | 65 | Open |
| 1898 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Floryan Eugene | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 1899 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Shamil Arslanov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 38 | Open |
| 1900 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Alejandro Domingo Nunez | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 34 | Open |