GM Ziaur Rahman (above left) and GM Enamul Hossain Razib (below right) of Bangladesh share the lead with 3 points from 3 rounds of the Asian Zone 3.2 Zonal Hybrid Chess Championship 2021. The qualification tournament for the FIDE World Cup 2021 is sponsored by SAIF POWERTEC Limited and is being held at the Asia Hotel & Resorts and online chess platform Tornelo.
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Six players trail with 2½ points each, namely IM Mohammad Fahad Rahman, IM Abu Sufian Shakil, Anata Choudhury and CM Manon Reja Neer of Bangladesh, FM L M S T De Silva and CM Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan of Sri Lanka.
4th round games will start Friday from 3:30 PM (Dhaka time) at same venue and online.
Ranindu Dilshan Liyanage (above left) of Ananda College, the National Chess Champion beat Ahamad Mahatabuddin of Bangladesh with a rating of 2035 while LMST De Silva (above right) of Nalanda College beat Swarnavo Choudhry of Bangladesh in the 3rd round to reach 2 ½ points each out of possible three. They are now in the 2nd bunch of 6 players who just behind the two leaders having 3 points each.
| SAIF POWERTEC Asian Zonal 3.2 Chess Championship 2021 | |||||||||
| Pairings/Results | |||||||||
| Round 3 on 2021/06/03 at 3:30 PM (Dhaka | |||||||||
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Result | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
| 1 | 1 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | 2434 | 1 – 0 | FM | Mehdi Hasan Parag | 2187 | 10 |
| 2 | 7 | FM | Rahman Syed Mahfuzur | 2213 | 0 – 1 | GM | Hossain Enamul | 2402 | 2 |
| 3 | 9 | Anata Choudhury | 2202 | ½ – ½ | IM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | 2314 | 3 | |
| 4 | 14 | CM | Manon Reja Neer | 2130 | ½ – ½ | IM | Abu Sufian Shakil | 2242 | 6 |
| 5 | 19 | CM | Ahmed Mahtabuddin | 2035 | 0 – 1 | CM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | 2203 | 8 |
| 6 | 17 | FM | De Silva L M S T | 2085 | 1 – 0 | Swarnavo Choudhury | 1966 | 23 | |
| 7 | 24 | WFM | Noshin Anjum | 1948 | 0 – 1 | IM | Mohammad Minhaz Uddin | 2278 | 4 |
| 8 | 5 | FM | Subrota Biswas | 2268 | 1 – 0 | CM | Amarasinghe A A C B | 1873 | 26 |
| 9 | 11 | FM | Islam Khandaker Aminul | 2182 | 1 – 0 | Musawir Khan | 1773 | 28 | |
| 10 | 30 | Prajapati Raj | 1749 | 0 – 1 | FM | Ahmed Sheikh Nasir | 2178 | 12 | |
| 11 | 13 | CM | Zia Tahsin Tajwar | 2178 | 1 – 0 | Wadifa Ahmed | 1629 | 34 | |
| 12 | 15 | CM | Md. Sharif Hossain | 2122 | 1 – 0 | Muhammad Faisal Mughal | 0 | 37 | |
| 13 | 38 | Muneeb Yaqoob | 0 | 0 – 1 | CM | Chowdhury Sohel | 2106 | 16 | |
| 14 | 39 | Prajapati Anshu Dil | 0 | 0 – 1 | CM | Nayem Haque | 2080 | 18 | |
| 15 | 21 | Kusatha Niken | 1984 | 1 – 0 | Anis Ur Rehman Zaidi | 0 | 36 | ||
| 16 | 31 | Farooq Noor | 1706 | 0 – 1 | Mihir Lal Das | 2013 | 20 | ||
| 17 | 25 | FM | Muhammed Shuaau | 1925 | 1 – 0 | Muhammad Haris Rizwan | 1633 | 33 | |
| 18 | 27 | Ahmad Awais | 1838 | 1 – 0 | Afzal Shahwani | 1443 | 35 | ||
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