Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman died of heart attack while participating in the national chess competition at the Bangladesh Chess Federation building in the city on Friday, report agencies.
He collapsed all of a sudden at 5:52pm when he was playing against another grandmaster Enamul Hossain Rajib during the 12th round of the competition.
As soon as he fell down, the people around him rushed him to the Shahbagh's Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital where on-duty doctors pronounced him dead.
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