Anand's Seconds for World Chess Championship: Speculations about GMs Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Sandipan Chanda

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Anand - Carlsen World Chess Championship 2013 Updates: We're really not sure whether this is pure speculations about the seconds for the World Chess Champion, or really has some substance to it.

Indian newspaper Times of India has reported that it is a possibility that Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda have returned to India after working with World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand in Germany. 

The report basically explains the idea of Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand maintaining secrecy about their location and training team. The chess feature also talks about Carlsen having assisted Anand earlier.

But, the big paragraphs to note are these:

However, sources close to the Anand camp have informed that Surya Sekhar Ganguly and Sandipan Chanda, two Indian Grandmasters, had been working with the defending champion in Germany. It's a great honour for any player to be associated with the biggest match, but they are bound by a code of silence, signing contracts with the players concerned that they won't talk about it before the game gets over.

"You can say I have gone underground," Ganguly told TOI, when he returned to Kolkata a few days back for the festival break. While he would refuse to divulge where he was, it was understood that he, along with Chanda and a couple of others were in Germany with Anand and Aruna (his wife and manager) preparing for the game.

Rest of the chess feature involves "data" about seconds that is already known. All we can say is get ready for the big chess excitement this year as only 10 days are to go for the World Chess Championship 2013 in Chennai. 

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World Chess Champion Anand's Seconds: Sandipan Chanda, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Radoslaw Wojtaszek

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Indian newspapers have reported that World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand's new team member is Indian Grandmaster Sandipan Chanda. Chanda belongs to the same city as another of Anand's seconds - Kolkata. Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly, from Kolkata, continues in Anand's team. Anand takes on World No. 1 Carlsen for the world championship in November. (Photo: Sandipan Chanda - new addition to Viswanathan Anand's team.)

Chanda, 30, is the second Indian player to be hired by the 42-year-old Anand. Ganguly, a five-time national champion, Pieter Heine Nielsen of Denmark, former world champion in the knock-out format, Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan and Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek have been core members of Team Anand in the last three World Championships. 

Ganguly and Wojtaszek will continue to assist the world No. 7. Chanda had accompanied Anand during a recent GM tournament in Norway. 

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