Elshan Moradi
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Elshan Moradi Abadi in 2010
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| Full name | Elshan Moradi Abadi |
| Country | Iran United States |
| Born |
May 22, 1985 Tehran, Iran |
| Title | Grandmaster |
| FIDE rating | 2550 (April 2017) |
| Peak rating | 2585 (February 2014) |
| Medal record | ||
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Representing  Iran
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| Asian Games | ||
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2006 Doha | Mixed Team classical |
| Asian Indoor Games | ||
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2007 Macau | Individual blitz |
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2007 Macau | Mixed Team rapid |
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2009 Hanoi | Mixed Team blitz |
| World Mind Sports Games | ||
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2008 Beijing | Team rapid |
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.
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.
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.
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