As of October 2022, Tin is currently pursuing a degree in computing at the National University of Singapore.
[4] Tin achieved his first Grandmaster norm in 2015 by winning the Asean Under-20 chess tournament and was directly awarded the title of International Master.
He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2021 where he was defeated by Timur Gareyev on tiebreaks in the first round.
[9][10][11] In August 2023, Tin caused an upset by defeating super-grandmaster Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (who was the tournament's ninth seed) in the second round of the 2023 Chess World Cup.
Tin advanced to the third round of a Chess World Cup for the first time, where he was defeated by Rasmus Svane.