Neer not only claimed the national chess championship but also became the country’s youngest International Master.

Bangladesh men's and women's chess teams completed the 45th Chess Olympiad campaign with contrasting results in the 11th and final round held in Budapest, Hungary on Sunday.

Bangladesh jumped 12 places to secure the 28th position

Fahad's latest opponent had defeated reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in 2022.

Having spent five years, Fahad finally achieved one of three GM norms yesterday.

International Master (IM) Fahad Rahman took the lead in the open section of the Bangabandhu Asian Zone-3.2 Chess Championships at the close of the seventh round of matches at the Dilkusha Hall of Hotel Purbani International in Dhaka on Monday.

Bangladesh will hope its chess players will earn some norms and IM titles when the Asian Zonal Chess Championships (Zone 3.2) gets underway at the Engineers' Institute in Dhaka tomorrow.

National champion GM Enamul Hossain Razib became 29th in the Asian Continental Chess Championships which concluded in Chengdu, China yesterday. Razib earned 4.5 points from the event, thereby raising his rating by 12 points from this event.