Mitra Hejazipour ( fa, میترا حجازیپور, born 19 February 1993) is an Iranian and French chess player who holds the title of
Woman Grandmaster.
Career
She won the silver medal in the
World Under-10 Girls Championship in 2003.
Hejazipour won the
Iranian Women Chess Championship in 2012. She was the runner-up in 2013 and in 2014.
She competed in the
Women's World Chess Championship 2015
The Women's World Chess Championship was held from 16 March to 7 April 2015 in Sochi, Russia. It was a 64-player knockout tournament. It was originally scheduled from 11 to 31 October 2014 but problems in finding a sponsor and host city eventually ...
, in which she was knocked out by
Pia Cramling
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Sweden, Swedish chess player. In 1992, she became the fifth woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (GM). Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest fem ...
in the first round.
Hejazipour won the 2015
Asian Continental Women's Championship in
Al Ain
Al Ain ( ar, ٱلْعَيْن, , ) is a city in the western side of Tawam (region), Tuwwam region and the seat of the administrative division of its namesake, Al-Ain Region, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ...
. Thanks to this achievement, she earned the title of Woman Grandmaster and qualified for the next knockout Women's World Championship.
She has been playing for the Iranian team at the Women's
Chess Olympiads
The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams representing nations of the world compete. FIDE organises the tournament and selects the host nation. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, FIDE held an Online Chess Olympiad in 2020 and ...
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."
In 2021, she began
representing France where she had already been living. In March 2023, she became a
French citizen
French nationality law is historically based on the principles of '' jus soli'' (Latin for "right of soil") and '' jus sanguinis'', according to Ernest Renan's definition, in opposition to the German definition of nationality, ''jus sanguinis'' ...
.
In 2023, she became the French National women's champion.
Achievements
References
External links
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1993 births
Living people
Chess Woman Grandmasters
Iranian female chess players
Iranian chess players
Sportspeople from Mashhad
Sportspeople of Iranian descent
Naturalized citizens of France
Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Iran
Iranian emigrants to France
Iranian refugees
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