Chess Olympiad 2008

[Mohiul]

Bangladesh is participating in the tournament with 5 male players and 5 female players. You can check the progress of the tournament by clicking here. It gonna start from tomorrow. Bangladesh comprises of the following players: 54. BAN (RtgAvg:2486, Captain:Rausis, Igor)
Bo.		Name	Rtg	FED
1	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2510	BAN
2	GM	Hossain Enamul	2494	BAN
3	GM	Abdulla Al-Rakib	2522	BAN
4	FM	Abu Sufian Shakil	2418	BAN
5	FM	Minhazuddin Ahmed	2377	BAN
61. BAN (RtgAvg:2093, Captain:Mohammad Jahangir, Islam)
Bo.		Name	Rtg	FED
1	WIM	Hamid Rani	2132	BAN
2	WFM	Shamima Akter Liza	2094	BAN
3		Khan Nazrana	1987	BAN
4	WFM	Parveen Seyda Shabana	2079	BAN
5	WFM	Parveen Tanima	2066	BAN

Inshallah our team gonna do well. I'm looking forward for a very good result in this tournament specially from Enamul Hossain Rajib.

[Tigers_eye]

ab jab kisui bhujhi na. Kemney amra 86th hoisi 100'er moddhey? Faizlami ar ki. SL'o amader uporay? ei shob point system mani na.

[Mohiul]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
ab jab kisui bhujhi na. Kemney amra 86th hoisi 100'er moddhey? Faizlami ar ki. SL'o amader uporay? ei shob point system mani na.

Because we were defeated by Netherlands in the 1st round. Don't worry, Inshallah, at the end we gonna be in the right place

[sbsash]

Chess is my favorite board game and last year in 5th grade,I was in 1st place in my class(tied with my best friend and when we played it took us days to finish but we still could'nt finish).Anyways,good luck to the players.

[Tigers_eye]

Finally we are progressing. Currently 41st. Facing Vanuzuela. We should beat them comfortably.
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I have a question. Why didn't we send all our GMs? Why two IMs are there? India is very strong. All five GMs have way better ratings than any of players we sent. 3 ranked in 2600+, 2 ranked above 2547. Russia has all five over 2700+. wow!! They are the #1 team and deservedly so.
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1st round - BD vs Holland: .5 - 3.5 (Holland had all 4 GMs with rating 2600+)
2nd round - BD vs Uruguay: 4 - 0
3rd round - BD vs Libya: 3 - 1
4th round - BD vs Denmark: 1.5 - 2.5
5th round - BD vs Albania: 3.5 - .5
6th round - BD vs Venezuela: 0 - 0

[Shehwar]

Where is GM Riffat - Bin - Sattar ? ...Why isnt he in the team ?

[Zunaid]

It is surprising that all our GMs with the exception of Al-Rakib are in the high 2400s or low 2500s. It is a shame that we haven't had a GM who has consistently stayed above 2600 (let alone reach the stratospheric heights of 2700).

Zia at times came close to 2600.

Here's the current FIDE rating list:

IDcode	Name	T	WT	Fed	Rtg	Exp	B-Year	S	F
10200444	Abdulla, Al-Rakib	g		BAN	2522	0	1980	M
10200037	Rahman, Ziaur	g		BAN	2510	-7.6	1974	M
10200649	Hossain, Enamul	g		BAN	2494	12.9	1981	M
10200207	Reefat, Bin-Sattar	g		BAN	2471	9.3	1974	M
10200010	Murshed, Niaz	g		BAN	2437	-7.8	1966	M
10200916	Abu Sufian, Shakil	f		BAN	2418	-2.1	1980	M
10201955	Minhazuddin, Ahmed	f		BAN	2377	-24.45		M
10200622	Rahman, Md. Taibur	f		BAN	2328	-8.1	1976	M
10200975	Islam, Kh. Aminul	f		BAN	2324	0	1977	M
10200517	Syed, Raguib			BAN	2300	0	1972	M	i

[auntu]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
I have a question. Why didn't we send all our GMs?

That is also my question. WHY?

[Tigers_eye]

Bangladesh beats Venezuela 2.5 - 1.5. 3 draws and a win. We are now placed 37th total points of 15. Major shakeup in the leaderboard. Armenia takes the lead with 18 points. Followed by Russia and Germany 1. Ukraine is next and India finishes the top 5.

Next we face a strong Norway team. We would be lucky to get 1 or 1.5 points. Their GMs are struggling. We can get a win against them though. They have 2786 player.

[sbsash]

I will be happy with the Bangladesh team as long as they finish with in 50th and they beat Cuba.Because my best friend here is a Cuban and he says that Cuba is better at chess and Bangladesh so I want to prove it to him that Bangladesh is better.The 2 of us played each other a lot in chess but mostly it came out to be a draw or he came close to beating me and I came close to beating him but the time ran out.

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by sbsash
I will be happy with the Bangladesh team as long as they finish with in 50th and they beat Cuba.Because my best friend here is a Cuban and he says that Cuba is better at chess and Bangladesh so I want to prove it to him that Bangladesh is better.The 2 of us played each other a lot in chess but mostly it came out to be a draw or he came close to beating me and I came close to beating him but the time ran out.

(Even though BD is ranked 37 and Cuba 43)
Beating Cuba is next to impossible. They have a formidable team this time. I think head to head they will beat us 3-1 if not 4-0.

[sbsash]

Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
(Even though BD is ranked 37 and Cuba 43)
Beating Cuba is next to impossible. They have a formidable team this time. I think head to head they will beat us 3-1 if not 4-0.

I was thinking the same but I'm not giving up my hopes yet.

[Mohiul]

Alhamdulillah, we drew with Norway. Very good result indeed

Zia 1/2
Rajib 1
Rakib 1/2
Minhaj 0

That's 2-2

Well-done Tigers

check result. it's in board no 13

[mahbubH]

Next round we have to face mighty(?) Spain!

[Tigers_eye]

Originally Posted by Mohiul
Alhamdulillah, we drew with Norway. Very good result indeed

Zia 1/2
Rajib 1
Rakib 1/2
Minhaj 0

That's 2-2

Well-done Tigers

check result. it's in board no 13

Al hamdulillah. We are badly missing our other two GMs. Every team (good ones) brought in their (5) five GMs. I think we would have been up by at least a point if not more had the other two came. There would have been a big difference between 17.5 and 18.5 or even 19.

Spain shesh. jodu kodu'r shatey kheila ie obostha. Bring on their GMs.

[AsifTheManRahman]

Well we might be missing Rifat, but Niaz - although the ratings might say otherwise - has always been a tad overrated. He kind of lost his mojo after becoming the first GM in the country eons ago.

Rani Hamid's been playing for ages too and she isn't quite where one would have expected her to be after all these years.

[cricman]

We should start playing Chess on Yahoo Again during Innings break or Batting Collapses, I haven't gotten any better but it takes your mind off things that shouldn't get you aggravated

[Mohiul]

Spain beat Bangladesh today by 3-1.

Zia 0
Rajib 0
Rakib 1/2
Minhaj 1/2

[sbsash]

Originally Posted by Mohiul
Spain beat Bangladesh today by 3-1.

Zia 0
Rajib 0
Rakib 1/2
Minhaj 1/2

we need more Chess players in the country.

[sbsash]

Does anyone here play at www.chess.com.Its a fun site and if you want to challenge me,my user name is sidratul1997 and my rating is 1435.

[Tigers_eye]

GM Abdullah al Raqib rocks!!! He has not lost a single game in this tournament. He has one more round to go. He bagged total of 6 points. increased his rating to 2522. His Rp is 2628. Congratulations!!

Bd should finish higher than their original ranking that they began with. best of luck for the last round against Thailand.

[Mohiul]

Bo.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pts.	Games	Rp	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	GM	Rahman Ziaur	2510	BAN	½	1		0	1	½	½	0	0	1	1	5,5	10	2558	5,5	4,85	0,65	10	6,5
2	GM	Hossain Enamul	2494	BAN	0	1	1	0		1	1	0	0		1	5,0	9	2471	5	4,96	0,04	10	0,4
3	GM	Abdulla Al-Rakib	2522	BAN		1	1	½	1		½	½	1	½	1	7,0	9	2640	7	5,67	1,33	10	13,3
4	FM	Abu Sufian Shakil	2418	BAN	0	1	0		1	½	0		0	0		2,5	8	2222	2,5	4,56	-2,06	10	-20,6
5	FM	Minhazuddin Ahmed	2377	BAN	0		1	1	½	½		½		1	1	5,5	8	2371	5	3,65	1,35	15	20,3

Performance card for Bangladesh players. Truly Rakib rocks as mentioned by T_E earlier. Shakil disappointed us with -21 rating points to his rating.

[Tigers_eye]

Shakil mia dubaisey!! Oh well. Rakib did extremely well. His final position was 80th and rating in this tourney was 2640. Well done Bangladesh.