Dhaka, Bangladesh Global: Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman passed away after suffering a heart attack while competing in the 12th round match of the National Chess Championship in Dhaka on Friday evening. He was 50.
Ziaur was competing against fellow grandmaster Enamul Hossain Rajib at the Chess Federation hall room.
He felt uncomfortable from the start of the game at 3pm at the hall room in Paltan.
At one stage, he fell to the ground at around 6pm.
Fellow chess players and officials then rushed him to the Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital in Shahbag, where the doctors soon declared him dead.
The country's star chess player left behind his wife and a son.
Ziaur Rahman received the FIDE title of Grandmaster in 2002.
He holds the highest FIDE rating ever achieved by a Bangladeshi chess player (2,570 in October 2005).
Ziaur Rahman passed his SSC from Government Laboratory High School. He later graduated from the University of Dhaka. He earned the International Master (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 was solid positional.
In 2022, he made history by representing Bangladesh in the 44th Chess Olympiad with his son, Tahsin Tajwar Zia. They were the first father-son duo to be on a national chess team.
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