Sandipan Chanda
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". 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 at the age of 9 and became a 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 became interested in chess when he saw people playing on the streets of Kolkata. He initially learnt chess with his first coach, the 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
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- ^ Chess is Better in the Caribbean—GM Chanda Sandipan Prevails in the Curaçao International Script error: No such module "webarchive"., by Jennifer Shahade
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Crowther, Mark (23 August 2004). "22) Curacao Chess Festival". No. 511. The Week in Chess. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Men's Chess Olympiads: Sandipan Chanda". OlimpBase. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chanda Sandipan weer winnaar Open NK schaken". gelderlander.nl (in Nederlands). Retrieved 22 July 2018.
External links
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- Sandipan Chanda player profile and games at Chessgames.comTemplate:Edit at Wikidata
- Rating data
- His online chess games and profile on Chess Live
