Atousa Pourkashiyan

Atousa Pourkashiyan is an Iranian-American Woman Grandmaster and is currently the 14th highest-rated woman in the United States. She is a former Girls Under 12 World Youth Champion (2000), four-time Asian Youth Champion (1999, 2000, 2004, 2006), and seven-time Iranian Champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014). Pourkashiyan was also the winner of the 2010 Asian Women’s Championship, and represented Iran in nine straight chess Olympiads from 2000 through 2016. In 2023, Pourkashiyan won an individual silver medal on Board 5 in the FIDE Women’s Team Championship, and helped the U.S. National Team advance to the semifinals.