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Atousa Pourkashiyan
Pourkashiyan in 2010
Born	(1988-05-16)16 May 1988 (age 37) Tehran, Iran
Spouse	Hikaru Nakamura ​ (m. 2023)​
Chess career
Country	Iran (until 2022) United States (since 2022)
Title	Woman Grandmaster (2009)
FIDE rating	2297 (March 2025)
Peak rating	2374 (May 2011)

Atousa Pourkashiyan (Persian:آتوسا پورکاشیان;Persian pronunciation:[ɒːtuːˈsɒːpuːɾkɒːʃiˈjɒːn]; born 16 May 1988) is an Iranian-Americanchess player. She holds the title ofWoman Grandmaster, whichFIDE awarded her in 2009.^[1]

Pourkashiyan is seven-timeIranian women's champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014) and a record holder among Iranian women chess players.

She was born inTehran.^[2] Pourkashiyan won theWorld Youth Chess Championship of 2000 in the Girls U12 category.

In April 2010, Pourkashiyan won theAsian Women's Chess Championship inSubic Bay.^[3] She competed in theWomen's World Chess Championship in 2006, 2008,2012, 2017.

In team competitions, she has played for Iran at eightWomen's Chess Olympiads (2000-2014), the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, and the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad.^[4]

In 2023, she won an individual silver medal on Board 5 in the FIDE Women's Team Championship, helping Team USA reach the semifinals.^[5]

In 2024, Pourkashiyan won theXV Americas Women’s Continental Chess Championship, qualifying her for the2025 Women's Chess World Cup.^[6]

Pourkashiyan married Americangrandmaster and five-timeUS ChampionHikaru Nakamura in 2023.^[7]

She was in the news alongsideSarasadat Khademalsharieh when she competed at theWorld Rapid and Blitz Championship 2022, without ahijab, amidst theMahsa Amini protests.^[8] In December 2022, she changed her federation from Iran to the United States, where she currently resides.

• Atousa Pourkashiyan rating card atFIDE
• Atousa Pourkashiyan chess games at 365Chess.com
• Atousa Pourkashiyan player profile and games atChessgames.com
• Atousa Pourkashiyan member profile at theInternet Chess Club (archive)
• "روز هفتم: آتوسا پورکاشیان، قهرمان شطرنج نوجوانان آسيا و جهان" [Day 7: Atousa Pourkashiyan, Asian and world youth chess champion].BBC Persian (in Persian). 11 June 2004.English translation.

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