Goodricke National Chess Academy is a chess training facility in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. It is run by th
Alekhine Chess Club
at Gorky Sadan, Kolkata. The club has fostered a number of youth talent including Diptayan Ghosh (winner, under-10 Asian Chess, Turkey) and Sayantan Das ( World Youth Chess Championship U-12 boys, 2008). Earlier protegees include Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly,

Chanda Sandipan Sandipan Chanda (born 13 August 1983) is a chess Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) in the Indian state of West Bengal. He started playing and Sandipan became grandmaster in 2003. In 2004 he won the Curaçao Chess Festival ...

, Neelotpal Das and Woman Grandmaster

Nisha Mohota Nisha Mohota (born 13 October 1980 in Hinganghat) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is the first WGM from the State of West Bengal. Career She became the then yo ...

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