Surya Shekhar Ganguly

Surya Shekhar Ganguly, 2011
Association	India
Born	February 24, 1983 Calcutta , India
title	International Master (2000) Grand Master (2003)
Current  Elo rating	2635 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2676 (July 2016)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Surya Shekhar Ganguly (born February 24, 1983 in Calcutta ) is an Indian chess grandmaster and six-time Indian individual champion.

Life

Surya Shekhar Ganguly grew up as the son of the astrologer Pankaj Ganguly in Kolkata, West Bengal . He attended the Goodricke Chess Academy there. His most influential chess teacher was Abhijit Majumdar, his first club the Alekhine Chess Club. Ganguly graduated from Scottish Church College . He has been working for Indian Oil since December 1999 . In 2005 he received the Arjuna Award in the chess category .

Chess successes

Individual championships

In 1991 he won the Indian U10 championship in Trivandrum . At the age of eleven he was able to win against a chess grandmaster, namely against Grigory Serper at the Goodricke Open 1995. At youth world championships in various age groups he usually had a positive record and ended up in the upper ranks, but could not win any. His best placement was a second place in 1995 in the U12 age group in São Lourenço .

At the World Cup elimination in Moscow in 2001 he was eliminated in the first round against Alexander Chalifman in a tie-break. At the Asian individual championship in Kolkata in August 2001, he finished third, as well as in 2002 at the U20 World Junior Championship in Panaji . In 2003 he won the zone tournament in Dhaka with 9.5 out of 11 and was thus able to qualify again for a world championship , 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 , and in August 2007 again a zone tournament in Dhaka. In March 2008 he won the International Open in Sydney ahead of Zhang Zhong . He won the Parvnath Open in New Delhi in January 2009. He was able to win the Indian individual championship five times in a row: in 2004, 2005 and 2006 each tied in the tie-break before Chanda Sandipan , and in 2007 with a half-point lead. In 2008 he won the tie-break with equal points in front of the international champion K. Rathnakaran, in 2009 (played in December 2008) with a half-point advantage. In January 2009 he won the 7th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament in New Delhi. He won the Asian individual championship in May 2009 in Subic . In November 2012 he won an Open in Fujairah ahead of Oleksandr Mojissejenko . In August 2019 Ganguly celebrated one of the greatest successes of his career when he won the very strong Belt and Road Open in Hunan . Ganguly got 7 points from 9 games and was the sole winner ahead of Yu Yangyi and Bassem Amin . In the 5th round he achieved a well-known 16-speed short victory over the top Chinese player Wei Yi .

Ganguly took part in the World Chess Cup three times , namely in 2005 , 2007 and 2009 .

As a second he supported Alexei Shirov . Most recently, he seconded Viswanathan Anand at the World Chess Championships in 2008 , 2010 , 2012 (together with Rustam Kasimjanov , Peter Heine Nielsen and Radosław Wojtaszek ) and 2013 (together with Péter Lékó , Chanda Sandipan , K. Sasikiran and Radosław Wojtaszek).

Team championships

He took part in six Chess Olympiads for the Indian national team ( 2000 to 2010 ) with a positive overall result of 30.5 points from 53 games (+21 = 19 −13). Ganguly also took part in the 2010 World Team Championships in Bursa and 2011 in Ningbo . In 2010 the Indian team reached third place, while Ganguly won the individual ranking on the third board. He took part in four Asian team championships from 2003 to 2009; he won them in 2005 in Isfahan and in 2009 in Calcutta with the Indian team, and he also achieved the best individual result on the third board. Ganguly also took part with the Indian team in the chess competitions of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and the 2007 Asian Indoor Games in Macau .

With the PSPB club he was Indian team champion in 2007 on the first board. Since 2008 he has also played in the 1st Spanish league , among others together with P. Harikrishna for CA Solvay , with whom he took part in the European Club Cup in 2014 and was Spanish team champion in 2015 . In Greece he has played for SA Chania since 2013 , in the Chinese team championship he competed in 2016 for Guangdong , 2018 for Chongqing and 2019 for Jiangsu . Ganguly has been playing for the Solingen chess company in the German Bundesliga since 2017 .

Title and rating

In November 2000 he was awarded the title of International Master, and since February 2003 he has held the title of Chess Grand Master as the eighth Indian. He achieved the standards for this at the Asian Individual Championship 2001, the Indian Individual Championship 2002 in Nagpur and at the 35th Chess Olympiad 2002 in Bled . In March 2010 he was 55th in the FIDE world rankings.

Elo development

Web links

Commons : Surya Shekhar Ganguly  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Surya Shekhar Ganguly on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ganguly wins in Fujairah . Article on chessbase.de from November 22, 2012
2. ↑ Ganguly wins Belt and Road 2019 and US $ 50,000! (english) . Article on Chessbase India from August 7, 2019
3. ↑ Resigning a game with grace! (english) . Article on Chessbase India from August 7, 2019
4. ↑ Gangulys Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Surya Shekhar Ganguly's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Surya Shekhar Ganguly's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
7. ↑ Surya Shekhar Ganguly's results at the Asian Games ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Surya Shekhar Ganguly's results at indoor Asian games on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ Surya Shekhar Ganguly's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)
10. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
11. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)