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

In 2004 he won the Curaçao Chess Festival with 7.5/9, a half point ahead of Alexander Shabalov.

[3] 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.

[4] He was Viswanathan Anand's second for the World Chess Championship 2013 match.

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