Atousa Pourkashiyan
Atousa Pourkashiyan is an Iranian chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009. Pourkashiyan is six-time Iranian women's champion.
She was born in Tehran. Pourkashiyan won the World Youth Chess Championship of 2000 in the Girls U12 category.
In April 2010 Pourkashiyan won the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Subic Bay. She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2017.
In team competitions, she has played for Iran in the Women's Chess Olympiad, Women's Asian Team Chess Championship and World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad.
