Sandipan Chanda
Sandipan Chanda is a chess Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata 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 was Viswanathan Anand's second for the World Chess Championship 2013 match.
In 2016 and 2017 he won the Open Dutch Chess Championship.
