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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster (born 1983)}}<br />
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{{Infobox chess player<br />
|name = Sandipan Chanda<br />
|image = Sandipan Chanda.jpg<br />
|caption = Sandipan Chanda, Leiden 2008<br />
|country = India<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1983|8|13}}<br />
|birth_place = Kolkata, India<br />
|death_date = <br />
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|title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]] (2003)<br />
|rating = <br />
|peakrating = 2656 (May 2011)<br />
|peakranking = No. 92 (July 2011)<br />
|FideID = 5004225<br />
}}<br />
'''Sandipan Chanda''' (born 13 August 1983) is a [[chess]] [[International Grandmaster|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]].<ref>[http://www.jennifershahade.com/curacao.pdf Chess is Better in the Caribbean—GM Chanda Sandipan Prevails in the Curaçao International] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723064132/http://www.jennifershahade.com/curacao.pdf |date=23 July 2018 }}, by Jennifer Shahade</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://theweekinchess.com/html/twic511.html#22 | title=22) Curacao Chess Festival | publisher=The Week in Chess | issue=511 | date=23 August 2004 | first=Mark | last=Crowther | accessdate=29 October 2019}}</ref><br />
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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 [[Chess Olympiad]]s of 2004, 2006 and 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/pnlvjp7g.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Sandipan Chanda|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=1 May 2011}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Graham |last2=Emms |first2=John |last3=Nunn |first3=John |title=The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games |date=2010 |publisher=Running Press |location=London |isbn=978-1-84901-368-0 |pages=663–669}}</ref><br />
He was Viswanathan Anand's second for the [[World Chess Championship 2013]] match.<br />
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In 2016 and 2017 he won the Open Dutch Chess Championship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gelderlander.nl/sport-arnhem/chanda-sandipan-weer-winnaar-open-nk-schaken~a965ddf7/|title=Chanda Sandipan weer winnaar Open NK schaken|accessdate=2018-07-22|work=gelderlander.nl|language=nl}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
{{Commons category|Chanda Sandipan}}<br />
*{{chessgames player|id=53011}}<br />
*[http://chess.vrsac.com/search/player_e.asp?FC=5004225 Rating data]<br />
*[http://chesslive.com/en/profile/Kutastha His online chess games and profile on Chess Live]<br />
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