CM Sakline Mostafa Sajid of Bangladesh Police emerged champion in the International Rating Chess Tournament that concluded on Friday at Bangladesh Chess Federation hall room.
Sajid earned 7.5 points to clinch the title.
GM Ziaur Rahman of Bangladesh Ansar became runner-up by getting the same points. CM Sakline Mostafa Sajid and GM Ziaur Rahman scored equal points in the tie-breaking buchholz cut one method, CM Sakline Mostafa Sajid won the title with 48.5, Cut one Buchholz score and GM Ziaur Rahman finished runners-up with 46.5 score.
Six players scored seven points in the tie-breaking system. Among them FM Tahsin Tajwar Zia of Bangladesh Ansar became third, FM Manon Reja became fourth.
FM Subrota Biswas of Saif Sporting Club became fifth, FM Md Sharif Hossain of Bangladesh Navy became sixth, FM Sheikh Nasir Ahmed of Bangladesh Navy became seventh and FM Mehdi Hasan Parag of Bangladesh Police finished eighth place.
IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin of Bangladesh Navy became ninth, FM Syed Mahfuzur Rahman of Janata Bank Officer Welfare Society became tenth, CM Md Abzid Rahman of Sheikh Russell Chess Club became eleventh, WCM Ahmed Walijah of Bangladesh Navy became twelfth and Ahnaf Rashid Chowdhury became thirteen in the tie-breaking with six and a half points each. Anata Choudhury of Titas Club finished fourteenth place and CM Md Sajidul Haque of Janata Bank Officer
Welfare Society finished fifteenth by scoring six points each in tie-breaking
system.
The ninth or last round games, GM Ziaur Rahman defeated FM Manon Reja Neer,
CM Sakline Mostafa Sajid defeated FM Sheikh Nasir Ahmed, FM Tahsin Tajwar Zia
defeated IM Mohammad Minhaz Uddin, FM Subrota Biswas defeated CM Md. Masum
Hossain, FM Md Sharif Hossain beat Anata Choudhury, FM Mehdi Hasan Parag beat
Sujan, WCM Ahmed Walijah beat GM Reefat Bin Sattar, FM Syed Mahfuzur Rahman
beat FM Md Saif Uddin, CM Md Abzid Rahman beat Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, Ahnaf
Rashid Chowdhury beat Feroz Ahmed, Swarnavo Chowdhury defeated Md
Moniruzzaman Masud, CM Sohail Chowdhury beat Belal Hossain, Md Rabbi Salim
beat Md Faysal Yousuf, CM Md Sajidul Haque beat Sibu Poddar, Nusrat Jahan
Liza beat Md. Sabubur Rahman, Sk. Rashedul Hasan beat Md. Rabiul Hossain and
Arabee Jabayer Mahmud beat Dewan Shahidul Amin.
The event was held in nine round Swiss League system and 124 players
including two grandmasters, one International Master and nine FIDE Masters
participated in the week-long meet-, organized by BCF.
The cash prize of Taka one lac seventy six thousand was distributed among the
winners.
