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In team competitions, she has played for Iran at eight [[Women's Chess Olympiad]]s (2000-2014), the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, and the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/vrxt7vpk.html |title=Women's Chess Olympiads :: Atousa Pourkashiyan |website=Olimpbase.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224103738/http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/vrxt7vpk.html |archive-date=24 February 2016 |access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref>{{clear left}}
In team competitions, she has played for Iran at eight [[Women's Chess Olympiad]]s (2000-2014), the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, and the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/vrxt7vpk.html |title=Women's Chess Olympiads :: Atousa Pourkashiyan |website=Olimpbase.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224103738/http://www.olimpbase.org/playersw/vrxt7vpk.html |archive-date=24 February 2016 |access-date=22 September 2019}}</ref>{{clear left}}

Atousa is married to Hikaru Nakamura.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 15:58, 26 July 2023

Atousa Pourkashiyan
Pourkashiyan in 2010
Country USA (December 2022-)
 IRI (Until November 2022)
Born (1988-05-16) 16 May 1988 (age 36)
Tehran, Iran
TitleWoman Grandmaster (2009)
FIDE rating2322 (March 2020)
Peak rating2374 (May 2011)
Medal record
Chess
Representing  Iran
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Doha Mixed Team classical
Asian Indoor Games
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Quang Ninh Mixed Team blitz
Asian Chess Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Subic Bay Individual

Atousa Pourkashiyan (Persian: آتوسا پورکاشیان; born 16 May 1988) is an Iranian-American chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009.[1] Pourkashiyan is Seven-time Iranian women's champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014) and a record holder among Iranian women chess players.

She was born in Tehran.[2] Pourkashiyan won the World Youth Chess Championship of 2000 in the Girls U12 category.

In April 2010 Pourkashiyan won the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Subic Bay.[3] She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2017.

Armenia - Iran, Chess Olympiad 2012

In team competitions, she has played for Iran at eight Women's Chess Olympiads (2000-2014), the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, and the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad.[4]

Atousa is married to Hikaru Nakamura.

References

  1. ^ "Titles approved at the 1st Quarter Presidential Board 2009". FIDE.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
  2. ^ "Title Applications. 1st quarter Presidential Board, 5-8 March 2009, Istanbul, TUR". FIDE.com. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
  3. ^ "Asia Continental Chess Championships 2010". Chessdom.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Women's Chess Olympiads :: Atousa Pourkashiyan". Olimpbase.org. Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Women's Asian Chess Champion
2010
Succeeded by