ACPB Charity Rapid Rating Chess Tournament begins today (Friday) at Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room at 10 am.
The event will be held to help the former national chess player, P. J. Bakul Barua, who is undergoing treatment.
It’s an open event for all chess players. Interested players can enroll their name with entry fee before start of the play at 9 am.
The event will be held in 7 round Swiss-League system in whole day and twenty thousand taka cash prize money will be given to winners.
“I hope we’re really close,” Arthur told reporters on Wednesday.
“The colour, the passion, the excitement for our local people to see cricket there was amazing and for our players to play in front of their fans and families and just play at home was amazing.
“We’ve had a couple of those now — the World XI, Sri Lanka and now the West Indies,” he added. “They were great occasions so let’s hope that opens the door for a lot more cricket in Pakistan.”
Arthur, a former head coach of both his native South Africa and Australia, was speaking at Canterbury, where Pakistan begin their tour of Britain and Ireland with a four-day warm-up match against Kent starting Saturday.
Arthur’s first Test series in charge of Pakistan ended in an impressive 2-2 draw in England in 2016.
