Rani Hamid carried on her remarkable winning run in the 45th Chess Olympiad 2024.
This time, the 80-year-old beat higher-ranked Swedish opponent to record her fifth straight win from as many matches she competed in the ongoing competition.
Riding on Rani’s incredible feat in Budapest, Bangladesh women team also beat higher-ranked Sweden team and climbed to 28th in the ranking after the end of the 8th round.
Bangladesh won the 8th-round game by 2.5-1.5 points as Rani and Nusrat Jahan Alo defeated Margarita Zaritovskaja and Inna Agrest respectively.