The Bangladesh open chess side and women’s team on Monday posted their second successive victories in their 10th round of games in the 41st World Chess Olympiad which is being held in Tromso, Norway.
Bangladesh defeated El Salvador comfortably by 3.5-0.5 points in the penultimate round of games in the open section. Grandmaster Abdullah Al Rakib beat Fide Master Arias Daniel, GM Enamul Hossain Razib beat IM Burgos Figueroa Carlos, IM Minhazuddin Ahmed Sagar beat FM Chavez Ricardo Ernesto and GM Ziaur Rahman drew with IM Arias Lemnys of El Salvador. The Bangladesh open team earned 12 match points and 24 game points after the end of the 10th round.
Meanwhile in the women’s section, Bangladesh defeated IBCA by 3-1 points. WIM Shamima Akter Liza beat Zsiltzova Lisenko Lubor, WIM Rani Hamid beat Valner Shafiga and WFM Sharmin Sultana Shirin beat Zarubinskaya Irina. WFM Nazrana Khan Eva lost to Stolarczyk Anna.
The Bangladesh women now have 10 match points and 22 game points out of 10 matches.
