Elshan Moradi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Elshan Moradi

Iranian chess player

Date of Birth: 22-May-1985

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: chess player

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Elshan Moradi Abadi (Persian: ???? ????? ?????, 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. Elshan Moradi in February 2016, became the second Iranian chess player reach to 2600 elo after Ehsan Qhaem Maghami, and in the following month he scored 2603 in his own personal record. Moradi began representing the United States Chess Federation in February 2017.