Atousa Pourkashiyan

Armenia - Iran, Chess Olympiad 2012
Atousa Pourkashiyan

Atousa Pourkashiyan, 2010
Country Iran
Born (1988-05-16) May 16, 1988
Tehran, Iran
Title Woman Grandmaster
Peak rating 2374 (May 2011)
Atousa Pourkashiyan
Medal record
Representing  Iran
Chess
Asian Games
2006 Doha Mixed Team classical
Asian Indoor Games
2009 Quang Ninh Mixed Team blitz
Asian Chess Championships
2010 Subic Bay {{{2}}}

Atousa Pourkashiyan (Persian: آتوسا پورکاشیان; born 16 May 1988 in Tehran)[1] is an Iranian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster[2] and six-time Iranian women's champion (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014).

She won the World Youth Under-12 Girls Championship of 2000 in Oropesa del Mar. She played for Iran in the Women's Asian Team Chess Championships of 2003, 2005 and 2008,[3] Women's World Chess Championship 2012. In April 2010 Pourkashiyan won the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Subic Bay.[4]

Her handle on the Internet Chess Club is "Atousa".[5]

References

  1. WGM title application FIDE
  2. FIDE: Titles approved at the 1st Quarter Presidential Board 2009
  3. Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Asian Team Chess Championship: Atousa Pourkashiyan". OlimpBase. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
  4. "Asia Continental Chess Championships 2010". Chessdom. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  5. "Atousa". Internet Chess Club. Retrieved 3 March 2011.

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