Claim: Amin Tabatabaei, international master and grandmaster,  participated in the Aeroflot Open in 2018, finishing 17th out of 92, and competed in the Asian Chess Championship later that year.
Evidence: Born in 2001, Tabatabaei earned his international master (IM) title in 2015 and was awarded his grandmaster (GM) title by FIDE in April 2018. In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. He finished seventeenth out of ninety-two, scoring 5½/9 (+5–3=1), earning an additional GM norm in the process. Tabatabaei competed in the Asian Chess Championship in December 2018.