Atousa Pourkashiyan
Iranian chess player
Intro | Iranian chess player | |
Places | Iran | |
is | Chess player | |
Work field | Sports | |
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Birth | 16 May 1988, Tehran | |
Age | 36 years |
Atousa Pourkashiyan (Persian: آتوسا پورکاشیان; born 16 May 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster 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, Women's World Chess Championship 2012. In April 2010 Pourkashiyan won the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Subic Bay.
Her handle on the Internet Chess Club is "Atousa".