Elshan Moradi
Encyclopedia
Elshan Moradi Abadi is a chess
grandmaster from Iran
. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011
, but was eliminated in the first round by Leinier Domínguez.
When he was 16 he won the 2001 Iranian Chess Championship
with a score of 10/11, ahead of Ehsan Ghaem Maghami
.
He was one of the members of Iran national team in the first World Mind Sports Games
held in Beijing (2008), in which the Iranian team surprisingly clinched the third place ahead of Hungary, USA and India.
He has been studying in NODET Schools from 1996 until 2003. Having passed university's entrance exam he had started to study in Sharif University of Technology
and has graduated recently with the B.Sc degree in field of Chemical Engineering.
On the May 2010 FIDE rating list his Elo rating is 2558.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
grandmaster from Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011
Chess World Cup 2011
The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia...
, but was eliminated in the first round by Leinier Domínguez.
When he was 16 he won the 2001 Iranian Chess Championship
Iranian Chess Championship
The Iranian Chess Championship is the yearly national chess championship of Iran. Below is the gallery of champions, notice the gap between 1980 and 1990 , when chess was forbidden in Iran...
with a score of 10/11, ahead of Ehsan Ghaem Maghami
Ehsan Ghaem Maghami
Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami is a chess grandmaster from Iran. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2583.In 2009, he won a 20 games combined match against Anatoly Karpov, played with a special rule: play to mate or dead draw...
.
He was one of the members of Iran national team in the first World Mind Sports Games
World Mind Sports Games
The first World Mind Sports Games were held in Beijing, China from October 3 to 18, 2008, about two months after the Olympic Games. They were sponsored and organised by the International Mind Sports Association with the General Administration of Sport of China and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of...
held in Beijing (2008), in which the Iranian team surprisingly clinched the third place ahead of Hungary, USA and India.
He has been studying in NODET Schools from 1996 until 2003. Having passed university's entrance exam he had started to study in Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology
Sharif University of Technology is a university of higher education in technology, engineering and physical sciences in Tehran. Sharif University of Technology is one of the most prestigious universities in the country, and is considered Iran's MIT...
and has graduated recently with the B.Sc degree in field of Chemical Engineering.
On the May 2010 FIDE rating list his Elo rating is 2558.