Sandipan Chanda (born 13 August 1983) is a

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Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) in the Indian state of

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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

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. 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

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s of 2004, 2006 and 2008. He scored a notable win over

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in 2007 at a tournament in Ottawa playing as White, which was selected for inclusion in

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's ''The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games''. He was Viswanathan Anand's second for the

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

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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 Sportspeople from Kolkata {{India-chess-bio-stub