Ziaur Rahman (chess player)
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Ziaur Rahman (born 1974) is a chess
player from Bangladesh
and the second Grandmaster of the country after Niaz Morshed
.
He passed his SSC from Government Laboratory High School & gratuated from University of Dhaka.
Zia holds the highest FIDE rating ever achieved by a Bangladeshi chess player (2570 at October 2005 FIDE rating list). On the May 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2553.
Rahman earned the International Master (IM) title in 1993 and the GM title in 2002.
His playing style is solid positional.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
player from Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
and the second Grandmaster of the country after Niaz Morshed
Niaz Morshed
Niaz Murshed is a renowned chess player from Bangladesh. He is the first Grandmaster to emerge from South Asia.-Early life:...
.
He passed his SSC from Government Laboratory High School & gratuated from University of Dhaka.
Zia holds the highest FIDE rating ever achieved by a Bangladeshi chess player (2570 at October 2005 FIDE rating list). On the May 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2553.
Rahman earned the International Master (IM) title in 1993 and the GM title in 2002.
His playing style is solid positional.