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's national team in the first
World Mind Sports Games held in Beijing (2008), in which the Iranian team surprisingly clinched 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 took part in the
Chess World Cup 2011, but was eliminated in the first round by
Leinier Domínguez. 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 the Texas Tech University chess team. Moradi, in February 2016, became the second Iranian chess player to reach 2600
Elo after Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, and in the following month, he scored 2603 in his own personal record. In the same year, he won the Washington International tournament ahead of
Gata Kamsky and
Ilya Smirin. Moradi began representing the
United States Chess Federation in February 2017. In 2019, Moradi tied for first place at the
U.S. Masters Chess Championship. In 2022, Moradi shared 1st place in the 122nd U.S. Chess Open with
Aleksey Sorokin with a score of 8/9 but lost in tie-breaks. As Sorokin represents Russia, this qualified Moradi for the
2022 US Championship. ==References==