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The Bangladesh chess federation became a FIDE member in 1979.
The federation has participate to 14 Olympiads since 1982 (its best achievement was 41th in 2004) and has finished 4th at the 1991 Asian Team Championship.

The last champions were: 1990 Syed Tahmidur Rahman, 1991 Reefat Bin-Sattar, 1992 Reefat Bin-Sattar, 1993 Reefat Bin-Sattar, 1994 Ziaur Rahman, 1995 Reefat Bin-Sattar, 1996 Ziaur Rahman, 1997 Enamul Hossain, 1998 Ziaur Rahman, 1999 Ziaur Rahman, 2000 Reefat Bin-Sattar, 2001 Ziaur Rahman, 2002 Ziaur Rahman 2003 Reefat Bin-Sattar, 2004 Ziaur Rahman, 2005 Ziaur Rahman, 2006 Enamul Hossain, 2007 Abdullah Al Rakib, 2008 Ziaur Rahma, 2009 Ziaur Rahman, 2010 Ahrmed Minhazuddin.

In 2010 Bangladesh was ranked 67th among the countries with 5 IGMs and a total of 26 titled players.

Dhaka, the capital, hosted international events and the United Insurance Championship since 1993. The winners were: Lodhi in 1993; Krasenkov and Hebden in 1995; Thipsay and Plaskett in 1997; Short and Shulman in 1999; Volzhin and Ehlvest in 2001; Sermek in 2002; Dzhumaev, Tiviakov and Rahman in 2003; Rahman in 2004 Nguen Ahn Dung  2008 and Rahman in 2009.

Bangladesh vs. Malawi at the 2010 Olympiads