Sandipan Chanda (born 13 August 1983) is a
chess
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Grandmaster hailing from the city of
Kolkata
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(Calcutta) in the
India
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n state of
West Bengal
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. He started playing and Sandipan became grandmaster in 2003. In 2004 he won the Curaçao Chess Festival with 7.5/9, a half point ahead of
Alexander Shabalov
Alexander Anatolyevich Shabalov (russian: Алекса́ндр Анато́льевич Шаба́лов; lv, Aleksandrs Šabalovs; born September 12, 1967) is an American chess grandmaster and a four-time winner of the United States Chess Cha ...
.
Sandipan started playing chess at the age of 9, he got interested in chess and saw people play on the streets of Kolkata. He learnt chess through his first coach Late Paritosh Bhattacharya who taught him the rules of chess. He played for India in the
Chess Olympiads of 2004, 2006 and 2008. He scored a notable win over
Sergei Tiviakov in 2007 at a tournament in Ottawa playing as White, which was selected for inclusion in
John Nunn's ''The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games''.
He was Viswanathan Anand's second for the
World Chess Championship 2013
The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion. It was held from 7 to 25 November 2013 in Chennai, India, under the auspic ...
match.
In 2016 and 2017 he won the Open Dutch Chess Championship.
References
External links
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Rating dataHis online chess games and profile on Chess Live
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Indian chess players
1983 births
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