Indian chess grandmaster

Sandipan Chanda (born 13 August 1983) is a chess Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) in the Indian state of West Bengal. Sandipan became grandmaster in 2003. In 2004 he won the Curaçao Chess Festival with 7.5/9, a half point ahead of Alexander Shabalov.

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 match.

In 2016 and 2017 he won the Open Dutch Chess Championship.

References

External links

• Sandipan Chanda player profile and games at Chessgames.com
• Rating data
• His online chess games and profile on Chess Live