April 21, 2025 - April 29, 2025
Holiday notice: The Saint Louis Chess Club will be closed on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025. We’ll reopen with normal hours on Monday, April 21.
As a teenager IM Derakhshani placed first in 2012, 2013 and 2014 at the Asian Youth Chess Championships. Derakhshani officially changed her federation from Iran to the United States in 2017 after a controversy arose about her refusal to wear a hijab while she played for the Iranian national team under the Iranian Chess Federation. Currently, Derakhshani is a student at Saint Louis University where she studies biology, and is an accredited journalist for FIDE.