In 2009, Shayesteh Ghader Pour won Iranian Women's Rapid Chess Championship. In 2011, she won West Asian Zonal Women's Chess Championship and was given the right to participate in Women's World Chess Championship. In 2012, she was second in Iranian Women's Chess Championship (tournament won Mitra Hejazipour). In 2012, in Khanty-Mansiysk Shayesteh Ghader Pour made her debut at the Women's World Chess Championship, where in the first round she lost to Pia Cramling.