ISRT won the runners up position in the Dhaka University Inter-department Chess Tournament 2013. Congratulations to the ISRT team which was formed with Ferdous Hossain (Batch 14), Nabil Awan (Batch 14), and Golam Saroare Shakil (Batch 14), and Syed Hasan Shahriar Miraj (Batch 15). The tournament was played in the Swiss League System consisting of 5 rounds and in each round there were 3 boards.

ISRT won total 4 rounds (11 boards). They lost only the first round and it was to the Arabic department. ISRT has managed to get very comprehensive victory against the departments of Law, Microbiology, Fisheries, and Sociology. Eighteen departments/institutes participated in the tournament and the Institute of Business Administration won the tournament.