Title: Woman Grandmaster
Player Rating: 2347
United States of America

Biography

Atousa Pourkashiyan is an Iranian-American Women’s Grandmaster and current #7 ranked woman in the United States. She is a former Girls Under 12 World Youth Champion, four-time Asian Youth Champion, and seven-time Iranian Champion. Pourkashiyan was also the winner of the 2010 Asian Women’s Championship, and represented Iran in nine straight chess olympiads from 2000-2016.