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WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan wins the Iranian Women’s Chess Championship
by Mahdipour Reza

WGM Atousa Pourkashiyan won convincingly the Iranian Women Chess Championship 2009. She collected 11,0/13 points without a single loss – 9 wins and 4 draws.

WIM Ghader Pour Shayesteh won her last round game with an attempt to take second. However, she took the bronze after WFM Sara Sadat Khademalsharieh, the youngest Iranian WFM and gold medalist from the Asian Youth Championship, conqured the silver medal with the same points and better tiebreak.

Standings

1 WGM Pourkashiyan Atousa 2272 11
2 WFM Khademalsharieh Sarasadat 1811 9.5
3 WIM Ghader Pour Shayesteh 2137 9.5
4 WFM Hakimifard Ghazal 2071 8.5
5 WFM Bayat Shohreh 1976 8
6 WFM Mahini Salman Mona 2088 7
7 Tajik Sareh 2018 7
8 Rahimi Tara 1876 6
9 Vakilpour Azin 1817 6
10 Zavar Mousavi Mehenoush 1879 6
11 Hammatizadeh N 1880 5
12 Alavi Homa 1904 4.5
13 Mahboobi Shiva 1744 3
14 WGM Paridar Shadi 2250 0

Source: Chessdom.com

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