GM Ziaur Rahman (above right) of Bangladesh crushed the Slav defense of compatriot IM Abu Sofian Shakil in 73 moves to maintain his solo lead with 7.5 points after the penultimate 8th round of the Zone 3.2 Zonal Hybrid Chess Championship sponsored by SAIF POWERTEC Limited at the Asia Hotel & Resorts in Dhaka, Bangladesh and online chess platform Tornelo.
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Close behind is GM Enamul Hossain Razib (above left) of Bangladesh who used the Velimorovic Attack against the Sicilian Defense of IM Mohamad Fahad Rahman to win in 68 moves and score 7 points. He is only a half point behind in the race to qualify for the World Cup next month in Sochi, Russia.
CM Manon Reja Neer (above left) of Bangladesh beat compatriot Anata Choudury to follow with 5½ points together with CM Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan (above right) of Sri Lanka. Ranindu used the Caro Kann Defense to beat FM Mehdi Hasan Parag of Bangladesh in 37 moves,
Nine players are tied with 5 points each, namely IM Mohammad Fahad Rahman, IM Abu Sufian Shakil, IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin (above left), FM Subrota Biswas (above right), FM Mehdi Hasan Parag, FM Khandaker Aminul Islam and CM Sohel Chowdhury of Bangladesh and FM L M S T De Silva and A A C B Amarasinge of Sri Lanka.
Starting the game after having a short Birthday celebration online by Arbiters, Sri Lanka FIDE Master Susal De Silva (photo above) of Nalanda College lost a Bishop for two pawns and managed to get a draw after a hard fought game.
Here are results of 8th or penultimate round games held Tuesday.
| SAIF POWERTEC Asian Zonal 3.2 Chess Championship 2021 | |||||||||||
| Pairings/Results | |||||||||||
| Round 8 on 2021/06/08 at 3:30 PM (Dhaka | |||||||||||
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
| 1 | 1 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | 2434 | 6½ | 1 – 0 | 5 | IM | Abu Sufian Shakil | 2242 | 6 |
| 2 | 2 | GM | Hossain Enamul | 2402 | 6 | 1 – 0 | 5 | IM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | 2314 | 3 |
| 3 | 8 | CM | Liyanage Ranindu Dilshan | 2203 | 4½ | 1 – 0 | 5 | FM | Mehdi Hasan Parag | 2187 | 10 |
| 4 | 4 | IM | Mohammad Minhaz Uddin | 2278 | 4½ | ½ – ½ | 4½ | FM | Islam Khandaker Aminul | 2182 | 11 |
| 5 | 14 | CM | Manon Reja Neer | 2130 | 4½ | 1 – 0 | 4½ | Anata Choudhury | 2202 | 9 | |
| 6 | 13 | CM | Zia Tahsin Tajwar | 2178 | 4 | ½ – ½ | 4½ | FM | De Silva L M S T | 2085 | 17 |
| 7 | 5 | FM | Subrota Biswas | 2268 | 4 | 1 – 0 | 4 | FM | Rahman Syed Mahfuzur | 2213 | 7 |
| 8 | 16 | CM | Chowdhury Sohel | 2106 | 4 | 1 – 0 | 4 | FM | Ahmed Sheikh Nasir | 2178 | 12 |
| 9 | 21 | Kusatha Niken | 1984 | 3½ | – – + | 4 | CM | Amarasinghe A A C B | 1873 | 26 | |
| 10 | 18 | CM | Nayem Haque | 2080 | 3½ | 1 – 0 | 3½ | CM | Md. Sharif Hossain | 2122 | 15 |
| 11 | 23 | Swarnavo Choudhury | 1966 | 3 | 1 – 0 | 3½ | FM | Muhammed Shuaau | 1925 | 25 | |
| 12 | 30 | Prajapati Raj | 1749 | 3 | 0 – 1 | 3 | CM | Ahmed Mahtabuddin | 2035 | 19 | |
| 13 | 20 | Mihir Lal Das | 2013 | 3 | 1 – 0 | 3 | Musawir Khan | 1773 | 28 | ||
| 14 | 36 | Anis Ur Rehman Zaidi | 0 | 3 | 0 – 1 | 3 | WFM | Noshin Anjum | 1948 | 24 | |
| 15 | 27 | Ahmad Awais | 1838 | 3 | 0 – 1 | 3 | Farooq Noor | 1706 | 31 | ||
| 16 | 39 | Prajapati Anshu Dil | 0 | 2 | 0 – 1 | 2 | Muhammad Faisal Mughal | 0 | 37 | ||
| 17 | 35 | Afzal Shahwani | 1443 | 1 | 0 – 1 | 2 | Muneeb Yaqoob | 0 | 38 | ||
| 18 | 34 | Wadifa Ahmed | 1629 | 2½ | 1 | bye | |||||
The Zone 3.2 Zonal Hybrid Chess Championship is sponsored by SAIF POWERTEC
SAIF POWERTEC LTD is one of the largest companies of Bangladesh keeping its territory into the world of engineering service of the energy sector of Bangladesh. We are occupied in sales and service of construction, materials handling and power production equipment in Bangladesh by exclusive agreement with world renowned producer. We been registered & transformed to a Private Limited Company in 2003, before it was SaifPowertec Corporation. We have diversity our business activity of port operation which in turn give us the contract for complete terminal operation of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), Pangaon ICD and Kamalapur ICD (KICD)
SAIF POWERTEC continued its business expansion plan and have entered into the word of renewable energy, Plastic & Polymer based manufacturing plant & OEM supply. And recently we have entered into the world of Strong Power Industry.
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