At staunch 15 years outmoded, Neer joins the elite ranks of World Masters, a feat that echoes the achievement of Niaz Morshed, the subcontinent’s first Grandmaster, who furthermore earned the title at the age of 15.
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05 October, 2024, 05:25 am
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Manon Reza Neer has been topped as an World Grasp in Hungary.
On 4 October, Neer defeated India’s Panda Sambit within the eighth round of the Grandmasters Chess Occasion held in Budapest. This safe introduced his total to 6 aspects over eight rounds, earning him his third World Grasp norm.
To qualify as an World Grasp, a participant must develop a ranking of 2400 and salvage three norms. Neer’s fresh ranking stands at 2450, and he had previously obtained two norms. With Friday’s third norm, Neer has now met your entire requirements for the title. The Bangladesh Chess Federation’s arbiter, Haroonur Rashid, confirmed the news to the media.
Neer’s accomplishment brings the total series of World Masters in Bangladesh to five: Zillur Rahman Champak, Abu Sufian Shakil, Minhazuddin Sagar, Fahad Rahman, and Manon Reza Neer. Among them, Fahad Rahman has already secured one Grandmaster norm. Fahad is furthermore competing within the identical tournament in Hungary and, with a safe in his last round on 5 October, he has the likelihood to salvage yet some other Grandmaster norm.
Following their participation within the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, three male and two female Bangladeshi gamers remained in Hungary to compete in three further tournaments at their salvage expense. In the first tournament, WFM Warda Arefin earned a Ladies’s World Grasp norm, and Neer changed into an World Grasp within the second. The third tournament holds further hopes for increasing norms and ratings for the Bangladeshi gamers, with excessive expectations for further successes.
