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.
The winners receiving their trophies
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 |
