Rani Hamid

Rani Hamid ( born Sayeda Khatun Jasimuunessa; Bengali: রাণী হামিদ, Rani Hamid; * July 14, 1944 in Sylhet ) is a Bangladeshi chess player.

Life

The rules of chess she met while her father when she was five years old, but seriously she trained until she was 32, when the Soviet GM Anatoly Lutikow gave lessons there on behalf of the Chess Federation of Bangladesh. She wrote the Bengali chess book Daba Khelar Ain Kanun ( Anannya, Dhaka 2004). Their eldest son, Kaiser Hamid is a famous soccer player in Bangladesh. He played in the 1980s and 1990s for the national team of Bangladesh. The younger brother Suhail Hamid won the Squash Championship of Bangladesh. The youngest son Bobby Hamid played in the first football league in Bangladesh for the club Mohd Sporting. In 1989 she was awarded the Jatio Podok, a national price, excellent.

Achievements

For Men National Team of Bangladesh, she played at the Chess Olympiads in 1984 and 1988 on the third board, and in 1992 on the second board. For the women's national team of Bangladesh, she played 1986-2012 in twelve appearances in eleven Chess Olympiads on top board. On the first board she also played in the Women's Championship in 2003.

The official Bangladesh Women's Championship, which was held since 1979 29 times, won 17 times until 2008. The British Open Women's Championship, which all chess players of the Commonwealth may participate, they could in 1983 in Southport, winning in 1985 in Edinburgh and 1989 in Plymouth.

1985 she was awarded the title of International Women's Champion (WIM). She was until 2011 the only chess player in Bangladesh who got this award of the World Chess Federation FIDE. Their highest ever Elo rating was 2225 in 1989.