The Asian Zonal 3.2 Championship 2013 took place on 2-9 February at the MAS Fabric Park Institution and Hotel at Thulhiriya, Sri Lanka. Two players from Bangladesh took first place – Ziaur Rahman on the open and Akter Liza Shamina on the women’s section.
A total of 46 players (34 men and 12 women) from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Maldives and Sri Lanka participated in the event. The event was a 9-round Swiss with FIDE’s classical time control.
GM Ziaur Rahman had a tough task but fought hard to get the 7.5 points that gave him the victory. He was unbeaten and only conceded 3 draws, but just finished half a point ahead of the closest followers – GM Rifat Bin-Sattar and GM Murshed Niaz.
WIM Liza Shamima Aktar of Bangladesh had no opposition in the women’s section, and scored a total of 8 ½ points, just conceding one draw against Manisha Sachini Gunaratne of Sri Lanka.
Ziaur qualified to the next World Cup and Liza to the next Women’s World Cup.
Final standings – Open section:
1 | GM | Rahman Ziaur | BAN | 2505 | 7.5 |
2 | GM | Reefat Bin-Sattar | BAN | 2441 | 7.0 |
3 | GM | Murshed Niaz | BAN | 2488 | 7.0 |
4 | GM | Hossain Enamul | BAN | 2493 | 6.0 |
5 | IM | Lodhi Mahmood | PAK | 2355 | 6.0 |
6 | Weerawardane R. | SRI | 2106 | 6.0 | |
7 | Kurukulasuriya Prasanna | SRI | 2071 | 6.0 | |
8 | Peiris T S S | SRI | 1986 | 6.0 | |
9 | Kavinda Akhila | SRI | 1987 | 5.0 | |
10 | CM | Anuruddha G C | SRI | 2112 | 5.0 |
11 | Priyankara Chamil | SRI | 1960 | 5.0 | |
12 | Alahakoon Isuru | SRI | 2064 | 5.0 | |
13 | FM | Weeramantry Sunil | SRI | 2118 | 5.0 |
14 | Rajapakse R M C M | SRI | 2110 | 5.0 | |
15 | Kalugampitiya R S | SRI | 2146 | 4.5 | |
16 | Gunaratne Mojitha Sathsara | SRI | 1700 | 4.5 | |
17 | Pieris T D R | SRI | 2036 | 4.5 | |
18 | Ali Abdul Rahman | MDV | 1904 | 4.0 | |
19 | Thapa Krishna | NEP | 2040 | 4.0 | |
20 | FM | Shrestha Sujendra Prasad | NEP | 1916 | 4.0 |
21 | Thrimavitharana Ravin | SRI | 1940 | 4.0 | |
22 | Hapuarachchi H L M | SRI | 2004 | 4.0 | |
23 | CM | Jayasundara P K U M | SRI | 2097 | 4.0 |
24 | Wimalasuriya Kasun M. | SRI | 1863 | 4.0 | |
25 | Lasitha Subash | SRI | 1864 | 4.0 | |
26 | Muhammed Shuuau | MDV | 1636 | 4.0 | |
27 | Wijekoon Chandana | SRI | 2032 | 4.0 | |
28 | Liyanage N P | SRI | 1922 | 3.5 | |
29 | Fonseka C K D | SRI | 1920 | 3.0 | |
30 | CM | Fuad Ahamed | MDV | 1855 | 3.0 |
31 | Prabajith Asela | SRI | 1863 | 2.5 | |
32 | Doluweera Minul Sanjula | SRI | 1774 | 2.5 | |
33 | Amarasinghe A A C B | SRI | 1868 | 2.0 | |
34 | Doluweera Dinul Thisura | SRI | 1780 | 1.5 |
Final standings – Women’s section:
1 | WIM | Shamima Akter Liza | BAN | 2135 | 8.5 |
2 | WIM | Ranasinghe S D | SRI | 1854 | 6.5 |
3 | Methmini Nelunika | SRI | 1585 | 6.0 | |
4 | Sultana Sharmin Shirin | BAN | 1990 | 6.0 | |
5 | Gunaratne Manisha Suchini | SRI | 1701 | 6.0 | |
6 | Senarath Kavindi | SRI | 1605 | 4.5 | |
7 | Yashora Tiumi | SRI | 1728 | 4.0 | |
8 | WCM | Methmali Y. | SRI | 1777 | 4.0 |
9 | Kulatunga Dinithi | SRI | 1528 | 3.5 | |
10 | Jayathilake Mihirani | SRI | 1605 | 3.0 | |
11 | Tharushi T H D Niklesha | SRI | 1454 | 2.0 | |
12 | Faiha Aminath | MDV | 0 | 0.0 |
