Sharmin Sultana Shirin

Sharmin Sultana Shirin (Bengali: শারমিন সুলতানা শিরিন, born 26 January 1989) is a Bangladeshi chess player[1] and two-time winner of the Women's Bangladeshi Chess Championship (2009 and 2013).

[2] In 2013, she became the sixth female Bangladeshi player to receive the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM).

[3][4] She earned the Woman International Master title (WIM) in 2019.

[6] She also played in the women's individual standard events at the 2013 and 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.

She was a participant at the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 in Sochi,[7] where she was defeated by American player Carissa Yip in the first round.