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The Bangladesh National Chess Championship is the annual individual national chess championship of Bangladesh. National Champions. Winners of championships by year
The Daba Sangha was re-organized into the Bangladesh Chess Federation, which was established in 1974. Qazi Motahar Hossain became the founding president of the Bangladesh Chess Federation. In 1985, Bangladesh Chess Federation started the annual Dr. Qazi Motahar Hossain International Masters Chess Tournament named after its founding president. [5]
He earned his second grandmaster norm in 1986 because of his performance in Capstain International Tournament, Dhaka (1985) and Calcutta Grandmasters Tournament, Calcutta (1986). In 1987, FIDE awarded him the Grandmaster title, making him the first GM in South Asia. Upon earning his bachelor's degree in economics, Murshed returned to chess.
The 35th Chess Olympiad, a chess tournament for teams. A chess tournament is a series of chess games played competitively to determine a winning individual or team. Since the first international chess tournament in London, 1851, chess tournaments have become the standard form of chess competition among multiple serious players.
Rahman qualified for the Chess World Cup 2019, where he was defeated by second seed Anish Giri in the first round. He was due to be coached by Igor Rausis during the tournament, but Rausis was caught cheating in the Strasbourg Open, and the Bangladesh Chess Federation cut ties with Rausis.
By doing so, he became the only Bangladeshi player to reach the second round of a chess world cup. He finished in 10th place in the Asian Chess Championship in 2007. [13] He won a GM tournament in Vizag, India in 2012 against a field of 17 grandmasters. [14] He won the Bangladeshi Chess Championship four times – in 1997, 2006, 2016 and 2017 ...
Prague Chess Festival: Prague: Round robin 25 Feb – 7 Mar 10 (6) GCT Romania Bucharest: Round robin 5 – 17 May 10 TePe Sigeman & Co tournament: Malmö: Round robin 20 – 26 May 8 Norway Chess: Stavanger: Double round robin 26 May – 6 Jun 6 (6) Biel Chess Festival: Biel/Bienne: Multi-stage 12 – 25 Jul 6 Sinquefield Cup: St. Louis: Round ...
This article depicts many of the strongest chess tournaments in history. The following list is not intended to be an exhaustive or definitive record of tournament chess, but takes as its foundation the collective opinion of chess experts and journalists over the strongest tournaments in history.