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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Igor Glek | 1-0 | 43 | Open |
| 1902 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Mikhail Pesotskiy | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 1903 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 11 | Reza Mahdavi | Kirill Shevchenko | 0-1 | 52 | Open |
| 1904 | 2024-10-08 | Titled Tue 8th Oct Early | chess.com INT | 10 | V Pranav | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 50 | Open |
| 1905 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 9 | Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder | Reza Mahdavi | 1/2-1/2 | 68 | Open |
| 1906 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Polina Shuvalova | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 25 | Open |
| 1907 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Reza Mahdavi | Matias Perez Gormaz | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 1908 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 8 | Reza Mahdavi | Olexandr Bortnyk | 0-1 | 54 | Open |
| 1909 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 7 | Maxim Rodshtein | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 40 | Open |
| 1910 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Reza Mahdavi | Roman Novoselov | 1-0 | 43 | Open |
| 1911 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 6 | Hamidreza Ebrahimi Herab | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 1912 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Zahar Efimenko | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 36 | Open |
| 1913 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Alexei Gubajdullin | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 45 | Open |
| 1914 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Alexander Gelman | 1-0 | 30 | Open |
| 1915 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Alain Otero Marino | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 68 | Open |
| 1916 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Reza Mahdavi | Leo Valle Luis | 1-0 | 26 | Open |
| 1917 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Kanan Hajiyev | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 26 | Open |
| 1918 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Kirill Kozionov | 1-0 | 25 | Open |
| 1919 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Bragi Thorfinnsson | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 31 | Open |
| 1920 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Reza Mahdavi | San Thit Lwin | 1-0 | 32 | Open |
| 1921 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Lucas Di Nicolantonio | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 78 | Open |
| 1922 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Jude Shearsby | 1-0 | 29 | Open |
| 1923 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 11 | Mukhammadali Abdurakhmonov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 64 | Open |
| 1924 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 11 | Ruben Gideon Koellner | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 33 | Open |
| 1925 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Early | chess.com INT | 10 | Reza Mahdavi | Nagare Kaivalya Sandip | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 1926 | 2024-10-01 | Titled Tue 1st Oct Late | chess.com INT | 10 | Reza Mahdavi | Arad Nazari | 1-0 | 38 | Open |
| 1927 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Benjamin Bok | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 53 | Open |
| 1928 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Reza Mahdavi | Dmitry Goltsev | 1-0 | 79 | Open |
| 1929 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Bogdan-Daniel Deac | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 33 | Open |
| 1930 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Hikaru Nakamura | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 1931 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Alexandr Fier | 1-0 | 90 | Open |
| 1932 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Roman Dehtiarov | Reza Mahdavi | 1/2-1/2 | 45 | Open |
| 1933 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Avi Harrison Kaplan | 1-0 | 33 | Open |
| 1934 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Teimur Toktomushev | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 1935 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Vladimir Goncharov | 1-0 | 66 | Open |
| 1936 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 11 | Reza Mahdavi | Tuan Minh Le | 1/2-1/2 | 82 | Open |
| 1937 | 2024-09-24 | Titled Tue 24th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 10 | Reza Mahdavi | Arsen Kukhmazov | 1-0 | 50 | Open |
| 1938 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Aaron Jacobson | 0-1 | 24 | Open |
| 1939 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Ilya Chekletsov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 29 | Open |
| 1940 | 2024-09-17 | Titled Tue 17th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Ariel Tokman | 1-0 | 53 | Open |
| 1941 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Reza Mahdavi | Hikaru Nakamura | 1/2-1/2 | 56 | Open |
| 1942 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Reza Mahdavi | Robert Piliposyan | 1-0 | 39 | Open |
| 1943 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Shiroghlan Talibov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 93 | Open |
| 1944 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Reza Mahdavi | Sugar Gan-Erdene | 1-0 | 66 | Open |
| 1945 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Jakub Pulpan | 1-0 | 1 | Open |
| 1946 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Sergei Zhigalko | 0-1 | 30 | Open |
| 1947 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Ilya Chekletsov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 27 | Open |
| 1948 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 4 | Damian Lewtak | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 24 | Open |
| 1949 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Dmitry Fomkin | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 1950 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Giorgio Belli | 1-0 | 74 | Open |