Elshan Moradiabadi

Who is Elshan Moradiabadi?

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, 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. He graduated from Sharif University of Technology with the B.Sc degree in Chemical Engineering.

On the November of 2012 FIDE rating list his Elo rating is 2575 which makes him Iran's highest-rated player.

Moradi Abadi is getting an MBA student at the Rawls College of Business.He is currently a PhD student at Rawls College of Business in MIS. He won the Final Four of collegiate chess with Texas Tech University in 2012.

He is in the peak of his career with the fide rating 2585.