Sandipan Chanda, a grandmaster in the game of chess from Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, won the title in 1983.

Sandipan Chanda (born August 13, 1983) is a chess Grandmaster from Kolkata (Calcutta), in the Indian state of West Bengal. Sandipan began playing and became a grandmaster in 2003. He won the Curaçao Chess Festival in 2004 with 7.5/9, half a point ahead of Alexander Shabalov.
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