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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Indian chess grandmaster}}<br />
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{{Infobox chess player<br />
|name = Sandipan Chanda<br />
|image = Sandipan Chanda.jpg<br />
|caption = Sandipan Chanda, Leiden 2008<br />
|birthname = Sandipan Chanda<br />
|country = [[India]]<br />
|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1983|8|13}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[India]]<br />
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|title = [[Grandmaster (chess)|Grandmaster]]<br />
|worldchampion = <br />
|womensworldchampion = <br />
|rating = <br /><small>(No. 145 in the April 2013 [[FIDE World Rankings]])</small><br />
|peakrating = 2656<small> (May 2011)</small><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 [[India]]n 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]].<ref>[http://www.jennifershahade.com/curacao.pdf Chess is Better in the Caribbean—GM Chanda Sandipan Prevails in the Curaçao International], 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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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=www.gelderlander.nl|language=nl}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[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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