GMM. Amin Tabatabaei

Amin Tabatabaei was born in Tehran and was already winning international medals at eight. In 2009, he won a World Schools title in Thessaloniki and bronze at the World Youth Championship in Kemer. He began working with coach Ivan Sokolov in early 2016. He became a Grandmaster in 2018, and second place in that year's Asian Championship qualified him for the World Cup. He won the Biel Masters in 2019. At the 2021 World Cup, he reached the quarterfinals, defeating Yu Yangyi, Pentala Harikrishna and Haik Martirosyan along the way. That result earned him a place in the 2022 Grand Prix. He reached the semifinals of its final leg in Berlin. He subsequently won the Aeroflot Open in 2024 and the Reykjavik Open in 2026. Alongside individual competition, he has represented Iran at the Chess Olympiad.