Atousa Pourkashiyan

Atousa Pourkashiyan (Template:Lang-fa; 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

^ WGM title application FIDE
^ FIDE: Titles approved at the 1st Quarter Presidential Board 2009
^ Bartelski, Wojciech. "Women's Asian Team Chess Championship: Atousa Pourkashiyan". OlimpBase. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
^ "Asia Continental Chess Championships 2010". Chessdom. Archived from the original on 4 May 2010. Retrieved 30 April 2010. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ "Atousa". Internet Chess Club. Retrieved 3 March 2011.

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