Sharmin Sultana Shirin ( bn, শারমিন সুলতানা শিরিন, born 26 January 1989) is a
Bangladeshi
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
chess player and two-time winner of the Women's
Bangladeshi Chess Championship The Bangladesh National Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of Bangladesh.
National Champions Winners of championships by year
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Number of championship titles (Open)
Number of championship titles (Women's)
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(2009 and 2013). In 2013, she became the sixth female
Bangladeshi
Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
player to receive the
FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM).
She earned the
Woman International Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
title (WIM) in 2019.
She played
chess at the 2010 Asian Games in the
women's team standard and
women's individual rapid events. She competed at the
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 ...
three times with the Bangladeshi women's chess team (2010, 2012, and 2014). She also played in the women's individual standard events at the
2013
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and
2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games ( tk, Ýapyk binalarda we söweş sungaty boýunça V Aziýa oýunlary/Япык биналарда ве сөвеш сунгаты боюнча V Азия оюнлары), which is also counted as the 5 ...
.
She was a participant at the
Women's Chess World Cup 2021
The Women's Chess World Cup 2021 was a 103-player single-elimination tournament, single-elimination chess tournament that took place in Sochi, Russia, from 12 July to 3 August 2021. It was the inaugural edition of a women's-only version of the Che ...
in
Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-Сочи.ogg) is the largest resort city in Russia. The city is situated on the Sochi River, along the Black Sea in Southern Russia, with a population of 466,078 residents, up to 600,000 residents in ...
, where she faced American player
Carissa Yip.
FIDE ratings
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Bengali name
Personal names in Bengali-speaking countries consist of one or several given names and a surname.
The given is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the " Western order" of "given name, surname". Personal names may depend generall ...
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1989 births
Living people
Bangladeshi female chess players
Chess Woman International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Asian Games competitors for Bangladesh
Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
Place of birth missing (living people)