Mitra Hejazipour

Mitra Hejazipour (Persian: میترا حجازی‌پور‎, born 19 February 1993 in Mashhad)[1] is an Iranian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster.

Mitra Hejazipour
Born (1993-02-19) 19 February 1993
Mashhad
NationalityIranian
OccupationChess player

She won the silver medal in the World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2003.[2]

Hejazipour won Iranian Women Chess Championship in 2012.[3] She was the runner-up in 2013 and in 2014.[4][5]

She competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, in which she was knocked out by Pia Cramling in the first round.

Hejazipour won the 2015 Asian Continental Women's Championship in Al Ain. Thanks to this achievement, she earned the title of Woman Grandmaster and qualified for the next knockout Women's World Championship.[6][7]

She has been playing for the Iranian team at the Women's Chess Olympiads since 2008. Mitra Hejazipour was fired from the Iranian national team in 2020 for "removing her headscarf (hijab) during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow". Hejazipour said that the hijab is a "limitation, not protection, as official regime propaganda claims."[8]


References
  1. WIM title application FIDE
  2. World Youth Chess Championship 2003 - Girls-10 Chess-Results
  3. "Iran Women's Championship 2012: WIM Mitra Hejazipour takes the title". Chessdom. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  4. Iran Women National Championship (Final) Chess-Results
  5. Iranian Women National Championship (Final) 2014 Chess-Results
  6. "Salem is Asian chess king; Mitra Hejazipour wins women's crown". Chessdom. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  7. Sagar Shah (2 September 2015). "Hejazipour new Asian Women's Champion". ChessBase. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  8. "Hijab Limits Women, Says Iranian Chess Master Sacked From National Team". Radio Farda.


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