Rani Hamid maintained her remarkable winning run in the 45th Chess Olympiad.
This time, the 80-year old beat higher-ranked Swedish opponent to record her fifth straight win from as many matches in the ongoing competition.
Riding on Rani’s incredible feat in Budapest, Bangladesh women's team also beat higher-ranked Sweden side and climbed to 28th in the ranking after the end of the eighth round.
Bangladesh won the eighth-round game by 2.5-1.5 points as Rani and Nusrat Jahan Alo defeated Margarita Zaritovskaja and Inna Agrest respectively.
Wadifa Ahmed drew with Anna Cramling while Walijah Ahmed lost to Pia Cramling.
While it was five in a row for Rani, it was third consecutive victory for Bangladesh women's team.
They earlier beat Uruguay and Dominican Republic.
In Open section, Bangladesh lost the eighth-round match to Kazakhstan by 3-1 points.
The women's team are up against Argentina while the open team will face Lebanon in the ninth round Friday.
