Ziaur Rahman (chess player)

[1] His 2570 FIDE rating in October 2005 is still the highest ever achieved by a Bangladeshi chess player.

He was the second Bangladeshi to obtain the Grandmaster (GM) title in 2002 after Niaz Murshed in 1993.

[2] In 2021, he won the Mujib Borsho Invitational in Dhaka with a score of 7.5/9[4] His playing style was solid positional.

[6] He was then taken to Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital in Shahbag, where it was declared that he had died of a heart attack.

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