Full name Elshan Moradi Abadi Role Chess Player | Name Elshan Moradi | |
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Born May 22, 1985 (age 39) Iran ( 1985-05-22 ) Similar People Ehsan Ghaem‑Maghami, Atousa Pourkashiyan, Shadi Paridar | ||
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Elshan Moradi Abadi (Persian: الشن مرادی ابدی , born 22 May 1985) 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.
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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.
In 2009 he tied for 3rd–8th with Anton Filippov, Vadim Malakhatko, Merab Gagunashvili, Alexander Shabalov and Niaz Murshed in the Ravana Challenge Tournament in Colombo.
He won the Final Four of collegiate chess with Texas Tech University in 2012. In 2015, He won the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship for the first time with Texas Tech university chess team.
Moradi began representing the United States Chess Federation in February 2017.
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Education
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. He graduated from Sharif University of Technology with the B.Sc degree in Chemical Engineering.
Moradi received his MBA degree from the Rawls College of Business.