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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 2 | Ege Koksal | Reza Mahdavi | 1/2-1/2 | 54 | Open |
| 1952 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Ayan Allahverdiyeva | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 27 | Open |
| 1953 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Late | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Dmitry Gurevich | 1-0 | 43 | Open |
| 1954 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Franciszek Sernecki | 0-1 | 85 | Open |
| 1955 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 11 | Reza Mahdavi | Nihal Sarin | 0-1 | 59 | Open |
| 1956 | 2024-09-10 | Titled Tue 10th Sep Early | chess.com INT | 10 | Nikolas Theodorou | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 36 | Open |
| 1957 | 2024-09-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Sep Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Reza Mahdavi | Kshatriya Nitin Vekhande | 0-1 | 70 | Open |
| 1958 | 2024-09-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Sep Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Mohammed Seder | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 29 | Open |
| 1959 | 2024-09-03 | Titled Tue 3rd Sep Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Reza Mahdavi | Aleksejs Adamovics | 1-0 | 50 | Open |
| 1960 | 2024-08-27 | Titled Tue 27th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Ravan Aliyev | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 71 | Open |
| 1961 | 2024-08-27 | Titled Tue 27th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Simon K Williams | 1-0 | 55 | Open |
| 1962 | 2024-08-27 | Titled Tue 27th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Uurtsaikh Agibileg | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 37 | Open |
| 1963 | 2024-08-27 | Titled Tue 27th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Raven Sturt | 1-0 | 47 | Open |
| 1964 | 2024-08-27 | Titled Tue 27th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Valiantsin Yezhel | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 28 | Open |
| 1965 | 2024-08-27 | Titled Tue 27th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Alexander Devaev | 1-0 | 69 | Open |
| 1966 | 2024-08-21 | Abu Dhabi Masters Online | chess.com INT | 6 | Amir hossein Doroodgar | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 34 | Open |
| 1967 | 2024-08-21 | Abu Dhabi Masters Online | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Meri Arabidze | 1-0 | 93 | Open |
| 1968 | 2024-08-21 | Abu Dhabi Masters Online | chess.com INT | 4 | Matias Perez Gormaz | Reza Mahdavi | 1/2-1/2 | 34 | Open |
| 1969 | 2024-08-21 | Abu Dhabi Masters Online | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Maj Zirkelbach | 1-0 | 67 | Open |
| 1970 | 2024-08-21 | Abu Dhabi Masters Online | chess.com INT | 2 | Alekhine Nouri | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 35 | Open |
| 1971 | 2024-08-21 | Abu Dhabi Masters Online | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Matthew Obrien | 1-0 | 19 | Open |
| 1972 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Vladislav Kovalev | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 97 | Open |
| 1973 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Levy Rozman | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 39 | Open |
| 1974 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Reza Mahdavi | Jeffery Xiong | 0-1 | 38 | Open |
| 1975 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Shubh Jayesh Laddha | 1-0 | 52 | Open |
| 1976 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Qingyu Yuan | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 86 | Open |
| 1977 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Teodora Injac | 1-0 | 39 | Open |
| 1978 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Kamal Aghasiyev | Reza Mahdavi | 1/2-1/2 | 156 | Open |
| 1979 | 2024-08-06 | Titled Tue 6th Aug Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Timofey Iljin | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 1980 | 2024-07-23 | Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Daniil Manelyuk | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 25 | Open |
| 1981 | 2024-07-23 | Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Hikaru Nakamura | 0-1 | 80 | Open |
| 1982 | 2024-07-23 | Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Mykola Korchynskyi | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 50 | Open |
| 1983 | 2024-07-23 | Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Khagan Ahmad | 1-0 | 63 | Open |
| 1984 | 2024-07-23 | Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Oleksandr Kuzhylnyi | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 42 | Open |
| 1985 | 2024-07-23 | Titled Tue 23rd Jul Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Vihaan Jammalamadaka | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 1986 | 2024-07-09 | Titled Tue 9th Jul Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Reza Mahdavi | Artur Dilmukhametov | 1/2-1/2 | 71 | Open |
| 1987 | 2024-07-09 | Titled Tue 9th Jul Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Deniel Causo | 1/2-1/2 | 117 | Open |
| 1988 | 2024-07-09 | Titled Tue 9th Jul Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Ruslan Gnechko | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 31 | Open |
| 1989 | 2024-07-09 | Titled Tue 9th Jul Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Jessica Trindade Hubner | 1-0 | 42 | Open |
| 1990 | 2024-07-09 | Titled Tue 9th Jul Early | chess.com INT | 2 | Klendi Zeneli | Reza Mahdavi | 1/2-1/2 | 75 | Open |
| 1991 | 2024-07-09 | Titled Tue 9th Jul Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Reza Mahdavi | Matei-Valeriu Mogirzan | 0-1 | 40 | Open |
| 1992 | 2024-06-18 | Titled Tue 18th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 1 | Vitus Bondo Medhus | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 76 | Open |
| 1993 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 9 | Reza Mahdavi | Maksim Volkov | 1-0 | 31 | Open |
| 1994 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 8 | Thomas Beerdsen | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 47 | Open |
| 1995 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 7 | Reza Mahdavi | Antoni Kozak | 1/2-1/2 | 85 | Open |
| 1996 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 6 | Atanas Dimitrov | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 44 | Open |
| 1997 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 5 | Reza Mahdavi | Matfey Rogov | 1-0 | 44 | Open |
| 1998 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 4 | Ilja Derjabin | Reza Mahdavi | 0-1 | 53 | Open |
| 1999 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Late | chess.com INT | 3 | Amir hossein Doroodgar | Reza Mahdavi | 1-0 | 27 | Open |
| 2000 | 2024-06-11 | Titled Tue 11th Jun Early | chess.com INT | 3 | Reza Mahdavi | Antonio Ruperez Benito | 0-1 | 46 | Open |