Biman win Div I chess

Bangladesh Biman became champions of the Dutch-Bangla Bank 1st Division Chess League-2009. With this success, Biman have won it 14 times, fdethroning last year's champions Destiny Limited. Titas Club became runners up. Biman and Titas both earned 18 points from their ten games and a play-off took place to break the tie. Biman beat Titas by 6-2 points in that match. I2 Soft Solution Limited became third with 16 match points. Basir Memorial Chess Club became fourth with 14 match points. In the last round games: Biman beat I2 Soft by 3.5-0.5 points. Titas beat Farashgonj by 2.5-1.5 points. In other matches: Basir Memorial beat Faith Chess by 3.5-0.5, Pradip Sangah beat Sonali Bank by 2.5-1.5 points and Metropolitan Chess drew with Jobs Vander by 2-2 points. Six players got board prizes. They are: Ziaur Rahman, Niaz Murshed, Saptarshi Roy, Shafiq Ahmed, Jamal Uddin and Masuda Begum. Eleven teams participated in the round-robin league.