Ziaur Rahman (born 1974) 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
Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...
player who received the
FIDE title
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of
Grandmaster in 2002. He holds the highest
FIDE
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rating ever achieved by a Bangladeshi chess player (2570 in October 2005).
Early life and career
Rahman passed his SSC from Government Laboratory High School. He later graduated from University of Dhaka. He earned the
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 ...
(IM) title in 1993 and the GM title in 2002.
In 2021, he won the Mujib Borsho Invitational at Dhaka with a score of 7.5/9
His playing style is solid positional.
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1974 births
Living people
Bangladeshi chess players
Chess grandmasters
Asian Games competitors for Bangladesh
Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
Recipients of the Bangladesh National Sports Award
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