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Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman set for the World Chess Cup

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Bangladeshi Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman left the country yesterday for Russia to take part in the FIDE World Chess Cup to be held in Khanty-Mansiysk from August 28 to September 21.

Rahman, with a rating of 2528, is scheduled to face the 2009 world junior champion and newly crowned French champion Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who is 194 rating points higher than Zia.

A total of 128 chess players from 46 countries are scheduled to fight it out for the global chess crown.

GM Ziaur Rahman

The Daily Star

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