Sandipan Chanda, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Sandipan Chanda

Indian chess grandmaster

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1983

Place of Birth: Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Profession: chess player

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sandipan Chanda (born 13 August 1983) is a chess Grandmaster hailing from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) 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.