The Most Famous

CHESS PLAYERS from Bangladesh

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This page contains a list of the greatest Bangladeshi Chess Players. The pantheon dataset contains 461 Chess Players, NaN of which were born in Bangladesh. This makes Bangladesh the birth place of the 0th most number of Chess Players.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bangladeshi Chess Players of all time. This list of famous Bangladeshi Chess Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.

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1. Dibyendu Barua (b. 1966)

With an HPI of 35.87, Dibyendu Barua is the most famous Bangladeshi Chess Player.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Dibyendu Barua (born 27 October 1966) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is a three-time Indian Chess Champion. He was the second Indian chess player, after Viswanathan Anand, second Bengali after Niaz Murshed, and third South Asian after Niaz and Anand to achieve the title of chess grandmaster.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Bangladeshi chess players born between 1966 and 1966. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bangladeshi chess players include Dibyendu Barua. As of April 2024, 1 new Bangladeshi chess players have been added to Pantheon including Dibyendu Barua.

Living Bangladeshi Chess Players

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Newly Added Bangladeshi Chess Players (2025)

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