Claim: Grandmaster and International Master, Amin Tabatabaei finished 17 out of 92 in the 2018 Aeroflot Open, and completed in the Asian Chess Championship that year as well.
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. He finished seventeenth out of ninety-two, scoring 5½/9 (+5–3=1), earning an additional GM norm in the process. In February 2018, he participated in the Aeroflot Open. Tabatabaei competed in the Asian Chess Championship in December 2018.