David Simon Charles Goodman (born 25 February 1958 in England) is an

International Master FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...

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, chess writer and teacher, and former journalist.

Career

He was educated at

Latymer Upper School Latymer Upper School is a public school in Hammersmith, London, England, on King Street. It derives from a charity school, and is part of the same 1624 Latymer Foundation, from a bequest by the English legal official Edward Latymer. There ...

in London and at

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University Museum a ...

. He has a BA and honorary MA from Oxford in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Goodman won the

World Youth Chess Championship The World Youth Chess Championship is a FIDE-organized worldwide chess competition for boys and girls under the age of 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18. History Twelve world champions are crowned every year. Since 2015 (OR 2016), the event has been s ...

(Cadets, under-18) in 1975. He played #10 on the English national team in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

in 1977. In 1978 he was part of the five-man English team that won the World Under-26 Team Championship in Mexico City. He was awarded the IM title in 1983, and reached a

FIDE The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( , ), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national chess federations and acts as the Spor ...

Elo rating The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess or esports. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American chess master and physics professor. The Elo system wa ...

of 2405. He has been inactive in competitive chess since the 1990s. Goodman started his journalism career as a

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reporting on international chess tournaments for

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, before joining the company as a full-time reporter and editor in 1990. One particular "scoop" was when Goodman helped to break the news that Soviet Defense Minister

Dmitriy Ustinov Dmitriy Fyodorovich Ustinov (; 30 October 1908 – 20 December 1984) was a Soviet politician and a Marshal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He served as a Central Committee secretary in charge of the Soviet military–industrial comple ...

was dead. The 1984–1985 World Chess Championship was played in Moscow's Hall of Columns where the bodies of Soviet leaders used to lie in state. After a series of unusual timeouts at the match, Goodman was able to establish through his chess contacts that Ustinov had died. Goodman left AP in 2002, to become a full-time chess teacher in

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. As of December 2009, Goodman is a coach for the elementary school chess team of the Abraham Joshua Heschel High School in New York City.

Books

*''Maneuvers in Moscow: Karpov-Kasparov II'' (Macmillan Chess Library) by

Raymond Keene Raymond Dennis Keene (born 29 January 1948) is an English chess grandmaster, a FIDE International Arbiter, a chess organiser, and a journalist and author. He won the British Chess Championship in 1971 and was the first player from England t ...

, David Goodman (Paperback – January 1986) *''The Centenary Match Kasparov-Karpov III'' by Raymond Keene, David Goodman (Paperback – December 1986) *''Showdown in Seville Kasparov-Karpov IV'' by Raymond Keene, David Goodman (Paperback – October 2003) *''Man Versus Machine: Kasparov Versus Deep Blue'' by David Goodman, Raymond Keene (Paperback – May 1997)

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodman, David S. 1958 births Living people English Jews English chess players American chess players Jewish chess players Chess International Masters American people of British-Jewish descent British writers British chess writers Alumni of Keble College, Oxford People educated at Latymer Upper School