Rani Hamid
{{short description|Bangladeshi chess player (born 1944)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Rani Hamid
| native_name = রাণী হামিদ
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Rani Hamid Photo (cropped).JPG
| caption = Hamid in 2012
| birth_name = Sayeda Jasimunnessa Khatun
| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|14 July 1944}}
| birth_place = Sylhet, Assam Province, British India
| alma_mater = Sylhet Girls' School
Eden Mohila College
| occupation = Chess player
| spouse = {{marriage|M. A. Hamid|1959|2008|end=d.}}
| children = Kaiser Hamid
| honours = Begum Rokeya Padak (2024)
| module = {{Infobox chess biography
| child = yes
| country = Bangladesh
| title = {{nowrap|Woman International Master (1985)}}
| FideID = 10200096
| rating =
| peakrating = 2230 (July 1988)
}}
}}
Rani Hamid (born 14 July 1944) is a Bangladeshi chess player. She became the country's first Woman International Master in 1985. She has been the national champion 20 times, most recently at the 38th Women National Championship at the age of 75.{{Cite web |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/FIDE_chess/status/1177961223704502274 |title=Twitter, International Chess Federation |website=mobile.twitter.com |date=28 September 2019}}{{cite news |url=http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/rani-hamid-anands-cheer-girl-from-dhaka/article5348129.ece |title=Rani Hamid — Anand's cheer girl from Dhaka |work=The Hindu |date=14 November 2013 |accessdate=4 September 2017 |author=P. K. Ajith Kumar}}{{cite news |url=http://www1.bssnews.net/aboutsportsgames.php |title=About Sports and Games |work=Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528173022/http://www1.bssnews.net/aboutsportsgames.php |archivedate=28 May 2012 |df=dmy-all}} She had won her 19th National Women's Chess Championship title in August 2018.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/sports/chess/rani-hamid-regains-title-1622740 |title=Rani Hamid regains title |date=2018-08-19 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=2018-09-14 |language=en}} She is also a three-time winner of the British Women's Chess Championship.{{Cite web |url=http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/britchamps.html |title=John Saunders's Chess Pages: British Chess Champions, 1904 to present |website=www.saund.co.uk |access-date=2018-09-15}} She became Zonal Champion in 2018, received the Journalists Choice Award in the Chess World Cup 2018 in Russia, and won the gold medal in Commonwealth Chess 2017 in Delhi.
Early life and career
Hamid was born Sayeda Jasimunnessa Khatun in Sylhet in 1944. She started playing chess at the age of 34.{{Cite news |url=https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/views/analysis/chess-queen-rani-hamid-deserves-a-place-in-guinness-1535727013 |title=Chess Queen Rani Hamid: Deserves a place in Guinness |work=The Financial Express |language=en |access-date=2018-09-14}}
Hamid won the national title for six consecutive years from 1979 to 1984. Starting from 1984, Hamid played in all World Chess Olympiads (three times in the general team). She was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985 and won the British Women's Championship in 1983 (jointly with Helen Milligan), 1985 and 1989.
Hamid received the gold medal in Commonwealth Chess 2017 in Delhi. She was the Zonal Champion in 2018 and won the "Journalists Choice Award" at the Chess World Cup 2018 in Russia.
Hamid won her 20th Bangladesh National Women's title in September 2019. This is the most Bangladeshi Women's Championship titles by a wide margin.
In September 2024, at the age of 80, Hamid defeated Springer Leshay of Barbados in the 3rd round match of the 45th Chess Olympiad, in Budapest, Hungary as Bangladesh's women's team beat Barbados with a 3.5-0.5 score.{{cite news |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/sport/other-sports/358450/80-year-old-rani-hamid-defeats-barbados-opponent |title=80-year-old Rani Hamid defeats Barbados opponent in Chess Olympiad |date=2024-09-14 |access-date=2024-09-15 |work=Dhaka Tribune}}
Personal life
File:Rani and abdul hamid.jpg, after their wedding in 1959.]]
Hamid was married to Lieutenant colonel MA Hamid, a sports organiser, from 1959 to 2008 (his death).{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/noted-sportsman-ma-hamid-dies-at-76 |title=Noted sportsman MA Hamid dies at 76 |work=bdnews24.com |date=25 July 2008 |access-date=2018-09-14}} Their son Kaiser Hamid is a former football player for Mohammedan Sporting Club and the captain of Bangladesh national football team during the 1980s and 1990s. Her other son, Sohel Hamid, was a national squash champion. Her youngest son, Shajahan Hamid Bobby (d. 2022), was a national handball player and a first division football league player.{{Cite news |title=BOA mourns death of Shajahan Hamid |url=https://www.bssnews.net/sports/66734 |date=2022-06-15 |access-date=2022-06-16 |work=Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha}} Her daughter is Jabin Hamid.
References
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- {{citation |last=Whyld |first=Ken |author-link=Ken Whyld |year=1986 |title=Chess: The Records |publisher=Guinness Books |isbn=0-85112-455-0 |page=142}}
External links
- {{FIDE}}
- {{Chessgames.com player}}
- {{OlimpBase player}}
- {{365Chess.com player}}
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Category:Sportspeople from Sylhet
Category:Bangladeshi female chess players
Category:Chess Woman International Masters
Category:Chess players at the 2010 Asian Games
Category:21st-century Bangladeshi chess players
Category:Asian Games competitors for Bangladesh
Category:Recipients of Begum Rokeya Padak
Category:Eden Mohila College alumni
Category:20th-century Bangladeshi sportswomen
Category:21st-century Bangladeshi sportswomen
Category:20th-century Bangladeshi chess players
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