Atousa Pourkashiyan (born 16 May 1988) is an Iranian-American chess player.
2000
Pourkashiyan won the World Youth Chess Championship of 2000 in the Girls U12 category.
In team competitions, she has played for Iran at eight Women's Chess Olympiads (2000-2014), the Women's Asian Team Chess Championship, and the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad.
In 2023, she won an individual silver medal on Board 5 in the FIDE Women's Team Championship, helping Team USA reach the semifinals.
Atousa married American grandmaster and five-time US Champion Hikaru Nakamura in 2023.
She was in the news alongside Sarasadat Khademalsharieh when they competed at the World Rapid and Blitz Championship 2022, without a hijab, amidst the Mahsa Amini protests.
In December 2022, she changed her federation from Iran to the United States, where she currently resides.
2005
Pourkashiyan is seven-time Iranian women's champion (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014) and a record holder among Iranian women chess players.
She was born in Tehran.
2006
She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2017.
2009
She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2009.
2010
In April 2010 Pourkashiyan won the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Subic Bay.
