Sandipan Chanda
Sandipan Chanda | |
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Sandipan Chanda, Leiden 2008 | |
Country | India |
Born | (1983-08-13) 13 August 1983 (age 41) Kolkata, India |
Title | Grandmaster (2003) |
FIDE rating | 2480 (September 2024) |
Peak rating | 2656 (May 2011) |
Peak ranking | No. 92 (July 2011) |
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 with 7.5/9, a half point ahead of Alexander Shabalov.[1][2]
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.[3] 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.[4] He was Viswanathan Anand's second for the World Chess Championship 2013 match.
In 2016 and 2017 he won the Open Dutch Chess Championship.[5]
References
- ^ Chess is Better in the Caribbean—GM Chanda Sandipan Prevails in the Curaçao International Archived 23 July 2018 at the Wayback Machine, by Jennifer Shahade
- ^ Crowther, Mark (23 August 2004). "22) Curacao Chess Festival". No. 511. The Week in Chess. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Men's Chess Olympiads: Sandipan Chanda". OlimpBase. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Burgess, Graham; Emms, John; Nunn, John (2010). The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games. London: Running Press. pp. 663–669. ISBN 978-1-84901-368-0.
- ^ "Chanda Sandipan weer winnaar Open NK schaken". www.gelderlander.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 July 2018.
External links
- Sandipan Chanda player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Rating data
- His online chess games and profile on Chess Live
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- See also: List of chess grandmasters
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