page_title: Rani Hamid
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Rani Hamid / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Rani Hamid and MA Hamid after their wedding in 1959
context_page_description: Rani Hamid is a Bangladeshi chess player who became the country's first Woman International Master in 1985. She has become the national champion 20 times. She is the current national champion crowned on the 38th Women National Championship at the age of 75.
  She won her 20th National Women's Chess Championship title on September, 2019. She is also a three-time winner of the British Women's Chess Championship.
context_section_description: Hamid was born Sayeda Jasimunnessa Khatun in Sylhet in 1944. She started playing chess at the age of 34. She was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1985. 
  Hamid won the national title for six consecutive years from 1979 to 1984 among her total 19 titles. This is the most Bangladeshi Women's Championship titles by a wide margin. She has won the British Women's Championship in 1983, 1985 and 1989.
  Rani Hamid at the age of 75 has won her 20th Bangladesh National Women's title in September, 2019. She started to play chess at the age of 34 and became the country's first FIDE Woman International Master in 1985. By that time, she already won her first national championship in 1979. Starting from 1984, Rani Hamid played in all World Chess Olympiads (3 times in the general team).
  She was the Zonal Champion at 2018. Rani Hamid won the "Journalists Choice Award" in World Cup 2018, Russia. She achieved Gold Medal in
  Commonwealth Chess 2017 in Delhi.
caption: Hamid with her husband MA Hamid, after their wedding in 1959.
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