Sharmin Sultana Shirin (Bengali: শারমিন সুলতানা শিরিন, born 26 January 1989) is a Bangladeshi chess player[1] and two-time winner of the Women's Bangladeshi Chess Championship (2009 and 2013).[2] In 2013, she became the sixth female Bangladeshi player to received the FIDE title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM).[3][4] She earned the Woman International Master title (WIM) in 2019.[4]
Sharmin Sultana Shirin | |
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Country | Bangladesh |
Born | 26 January 1989 (1989-01-26) (age 33) |
Title | Woman International Master (2019) |
FIDE rating | 1999 (January 2022) |
Peak rating | 2052 (November 2015) |
She played chess at the 2010 Asian Games in the women's team standard and women's individual rapid events.[5] She competed at the Chess Olympiads three times with the Bangladeshi women's chess team (2010, 2012, and 2014).[6] She also played in the women's individual standard events at the 2013 and 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.
She was a participant at the Women's Chess World Cup 2021 in Sochi,[7] where she faced American player Carissa Yip.[8]
National Woman Chess Champion Sharmin Sultana Shirin achieved Woman Fide Master title
Grandmaster (GM) Ziaur Rahman and GM Niaz Murshed and Women's International Master (WIM) Sharmin Sultana Shirin left for Russia today by Turkish Airlines to take part in the FIDE World Cup Chess 2021 and FIDE Women's World Cup Chess 2021
WIM Sharmin Sultana Shirin (rating-2011) is scheduled to face American International Master and Women's Grand Master Yip Carissa (rating-2430)