Ziaur Rahman confirmed his exit from the Fide World Cup Chess Championship 2013 after earning a draw against Israeli Grandmaster Boris Gelfand in the second game of the 1st round in Tromso, Norway on Monday.
The Bangladeshi Grandmaster needed to win the game in order to remain in the tourney, but his brave display led to a draw and saw him fail to qualify for the 2nd round.
Zia played with black pieces against the Israeli, who is rated 2773 in Fide rankings (11). It took Gelfand 103 moves to obtain thedraw which he needed move to the second round as he hadpreviously won the first game of the same round.
With the draw, Zia (rating 2470) increased his rating by 2.Zia is expected to return home today.