Ziuar shares second position after 7th round

Dhaka, 27 May - Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman shared the second  position along with others five players with 5.5 points after the seventh round games of the category A Grand Masters Chess event of the 13th KIIT International Chess Festival now being held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

The seventh round games were held Thursday last and Grandmaster Zia (Rating-2431) drew with 2,567 rated Georgian Grandmaster Paichadze Luka. 

Jodunath Biswas got 1.5 points and Kaumudi Nargis earned one point out of seven games.

A total of 175 players including eleven grandmasters, one woman grandmaster and fourteen international masters from ten countries are participating in the meet.