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Puteri Munajjah Az-Zahraa binti Azhar (born 2001) is a Malaysian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (2019), making her the third Malaysian to earn that title, after Audrey Wong Su Yi (1985) and Siti Zulaikha Foudzi (2006).
Chess career
In 2019, she won the girls Under 16&18 category at the 4thEastern Asian Youth Chess Championship in Bangkok, scoring 7½/9, becoming the third Malaysian WIM.
She qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2021, where she was defeated 1½-½ by Ana Matnadze in the first round.
In 2022, she finished as joint runner-up in Marienbad Open Chess Festival with a score of 6.5/9. Later in the same year, she took part in the 2021 Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam, where Munajjah and her sister, Puteri Rifqah Fahada won a bronze medal for the Women’s Blitz Team event.