Surya Shekhar Ganguly
Surya Shekhar Ganguly ( born February 24, 1983 in Calcutta) is an Indian chess grandmaster and six-time Indian single master.
Life
Surya Shekhar Ganguly grew up as the son of the astrologer Pankaj Ganguly at Kolkata in West Bengal. He attended the Goodricke Chess Academy. His most influential chess teachers was Abhijit Majumdar, his first club of the Alekhine Chess Club. Ganguly is a graduate of Scottish Church College. Since December 1999, he worked for Indian Oil. In 2005 he was awarded the Arjuna Award in the category of chess.
Chess success
Individual Championships
In 1991, he won the Indian U10 Championship in Trivandrum. Even the age of eleven he was able to win against a chess grandmaster, against Grigori Serper at Goodricke Open 1995. At World Youth Championships in different age groups had mostly a positive balance and landed in the top ranks, but could not win.
At the World Cup elimination in Moscow, he retired in 2001 in the first round against Alexander Khalifman in the tie-break from. In the Asian Individual Championship in August 2001 in Kolkata, he was third, also in 2002 at the Junior World Championships U20 in Panaji. In 2003, he won the zone tournament in Dhaka with 9.5 out of 11 and was able to once again qualify for a World Cup, but he lost in Tripoli in 2004 in the first round against Peter Heine Nielsen. In 2005 he won the 7th Insurance & Leasing tournament in Dhaka, in 2006 he won the ONGC Cup in Hyderabad, India, in August 2007, again a zone tournament in Dhaka. In March 2008 he won the International Open in Sydney Zhang Zhong. The Parvnath Open in New Delhi in January 2009, he won five times in succession he won the Indian Individual Championship. 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively on points in the tiebreaker before Chanda Sandipan, 2007 finally with half a point ahead. In 2008 he won on points in the tie-break before the International Master K. Rathnakaran, 2009 (played in December 2008) with a half -point lead. In January 2009, he won the 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in New Delhi. The Asian Individual Championship he won in May 2009 in Subic. In November 2012, he won an open in Fujairah before Oleksandr Mojissejenko.
As Sekundant Alexei Shirov he supported. Most recently, he was seconded Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2008 together with Rustam Kasimjanov, Peter Heine Nielsen and Radosław Wojtaszek.
Team Championships
He took for the Indian national team in six Chess Olympiads (2000 to 2010) with a positive total return of 30.5 points from 53 games ( 21, = 19, -13). In the Asian Team Championship 2003 in Jodhpur, the Indian national was with him on board Two silver medal. The Asia Championship 2005 in Isfahan India won with him on board three, with Ganguly also for his score of 7 out of 8 reached an individual gold medal at an Elo performance of 2716. At the Asia Championships 2008 in Visakhapatnam India took the second place, where he received an individual silver medal for his score of 5.5 out of 7 on the second board. In the third place in the Indian team at the World Team Championship in Bursa in 2010 he had an Elo performance of 2804th In the Asia Cup 2010 in Guangzhou India took with him on the third board in third place.
With the club PSPB he was in 2007 on the first board of Indian team champion. Since 2008, he also plays in the first Spanish league, either together with P. Harikrishna and Pari Negi for the CA Solvay. In Greece Since 2013 he plays for SA Chania.
Title and rating
In November 2000 he was awarded the title of International Master since February 2003, he bears the title as the eighth Indian chess grandmaster. The standards for this he achieved in the Asian Individual Championship in 2001, in the Indian retail Cup 2002 in Nagpur and at the 35th Chess Olympiad in Bled in 2002. His Elo rating is 2646 (as of November 2013), his previous highest was in 2672 March-June 2010 Then he was on the 55th place in the FIDE world ranking list..