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Enamul Hossain
CountryBangladesh
Born1981 (age 42–43)
TitleGrandmaster (2008)
Peak rating2531 (April 2009)

Enamul Hossain (born 1981) is the fifth chess player from Bangladesh to become a Grandmaster. No other player from his country could earn the title since he attained it in 2008. He defeated Pavel Eljanov in a two-game match in Chess World Cup 2007, becoming the only Bangladeshi to qualify for the second round of a chess world cup. He also won the Bangladeshi Chess Championship four times.

Early life and career

Enamul Hossain was born in 1981,[1] and grew up in Dhaka. He learned the rules of chess from his father. In 1993, he played his first chess tournament, which raised his interest in the game.[2] His first rating was 2255,[2] which was published in January 1996.[3] He owned only two chess books, one of which is Bobby Fischer's My 60 Memorable Games and he studied them multiple times; it was due to the unavailability of chess books in his country. He played his first Bangladeshi Chess Championship in 1995.[2] He received coaching from Michał Krasenkow in the same year,[5] which was also the only formal coaching he received.[2] He qualified for the Bangladesh team of Chess Olympiad for the first time when he was 15 years old.[2][6]

Hossain won the Bangladeshi championship for the first time in 1997.[7] He earned the International Master (IM) title in 2002.[1] He got his 1st Grandmaster norm in the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled, Slovenia the same year he became an IM and achieved his 2nd norm in a Grandmaster tournament in Abu Dhabi in 2007.[8] Since he already reached 2500 rating in October 2006,[3][9] which is also required for claiming the Grandmaster title, he became the fifth Grandmaster (GM) from Bangladesh when he fulfilled his 3rd norm in the final round of national championship on 4 May 2008.[8] He qualified for participating in Chess World Cup 2007 and became the only Bangladeshi player to qualify for the second round in a world cup.[10] He did so by defeating then-world-no.19 Pavel Eljanov;[8] although it was the only world cup he was able to qualify for.[11] He reached his peak rating in April 2009 with a value of 2531.[3][9]

Fide records show that Hossain took part in only four tournaments from December 2009 to September 2012.[12] His rating also gradually decreased from being 2531 in July 2009 to 2404 in July 2021 with occasional increases.[9] Hossain has not done anything unrelated to chess for income. Besides being an active player, he is a chess coach training particularly the young generation.[2]

Achievements

As mentioned before, Hossain earned the highest title in chess – the Grandmaster title – in 2008. He beat Pavel Eljanov in a two-game match in the 2007 Chess World Cup, drawing the first and winning the second game. Eljanov was rated 2691 at the time of the match.[13]

Hossain finished in 10th place in the Asian Chess Championship in 2007.[14] He won a GM tournament in Vizag, India in 2012 against a field of 17 grandmasters.[15] He won the Bangladeshi Chess Championship four times – in 1997, 2006, 2016 and 2017.[7][16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Hossain, Enamul (Profile Info)". FIDE. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f No coach, just a few books and he became a GM! - Bangladesh's Enamul Hossain. Chessbase India. November 14, 2019. Retrieved July 16, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "GM Enamul Hossain". Chessbase. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  4. ^ Krasenkow, Michal (28 April 2019). "Five Decades in Chess". Learn from Michal Krasenkow. Thinkers Publishing. p. 13. ISBN 978-94-92510-46-4. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  5. ^ Krasenkow mentions in his book that he spent several months as a trainer of the Bangladeshi national team in 1995.[4]
  6. ^ "Hossain, Enamul". olympbase.org. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  7. ^ a b "National Open: National Champions". bdchessfed.com. Bangladesh Chess Federation. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  8. ^ a b c "Rajib new GM". The Daily Star (Bangladesh). May 5, 2008. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  9. ^ a b c "Hossain, Enamul (Rating Progress Chart)". FIDE. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  10. ^ বদিউজ্জামান (June 10, 2021). "বিশ্বকাপের দ্বিতীয় রাউন্ডে খেলতে চাই" [Interview with grandmaster Ziaur Rahman: I want to play in World Cup's second round]. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Dhaka. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  11. ^ "Hossain, Enamul". olympbase.org. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
  12. ^ "Hossain, Enamul (Individual Calculations)". FIDE. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  13. ^ Grivas, Efstratios (November 26, 2007). "Khanty-Mansiysk: when giants stumble". Chessbase. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  14. ^ "VI Asian Individual Chess Championship". chess-results.com. Heinz Herzog. September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 18, 2021.
  15. ^ "Vizag Grandmasters International Open Chess Championship". chessimprover.com. September 30, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2021.
  16. ^ sports reporter (December 7, 2017). "Razib denies Rakib again". The Daily Star (Bangladesh). Retrieved August 2, 2021.
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