Ziaur Rahman (chess player)

Ziaur Rahman (1 May 1974 – 5 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi chess grandmaster. He was the second Bangladeshi to earn the Grandmaster title in 2002.^[1] His 2570 FIDE rating in October 2005 is still the highest ever achieved by a Bangladeshi chess player.^[2]

Rahman passed his SSC from Government Laboratory High School. He then graduated from the University of Dhaka in anthropology.^[3]

Rahman earned the International Master (IM) title in 1993. 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.

Rahman was married to Labanya.^[2] In 2022, Rahman represented Bangladesh in the 44th Chess Olympiad with his son, Tahsin Tajwar Zia, also a chess player. They were the first father-son duo to be on a national chess team.^[5]

On 5 July 2024, Rahman fell to the ground during his 12th round match of the Bangladesh Chess Federation National Chess Tournament against Enamul Hossain Rajib.^[6] He was then taken to Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital in Shahbag, where it was declared that he had died of a heart attack. It was later corrected that he died due to a stroke. He was 50 when he died.^{[7][8][9][10]}

• Ziaur Rahman rating card at FIDE
• Ziaur Rahman player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Ziaur Rahman Chess Olympiad record at OlimpBase.org
• Ziaur Rahman FIDE rating history at OlimpBase.org

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