Aleksey Goganov

Aleksey Goganov
Country Russia
Born (1991-07-26) July 26, 1991
Title Grandmaster
FIDE rating 2608 (January 2016)
(No. 185 in the December 2014 FIDE World Rankings)
Peak rating 2615 (December 2014)

Alexey Goganov (Russian: Алексей Гоганов; born 26 July 1991) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.

His International Master title was confirmed in 2010 after placing fifth with 5/9 at the FINEC GM tournament in January 2009, shared second with 9.5/13 at the St Petersburg Championship three weeks later (this norm also counting as a first GM norm) and scoring 5/9 at the Chigorin Memorial that November.[1]

His two other GM norms came via shared first with 7/9 at a GM tournament held in Moscow in 2009 and scoring 6.5/11 at the European Individual Championships in 2013.[2]

Goganov won the Polugaevsky Memorial in 2012 on tiebreak,[3] won the Chepukaitis Memorial in August 2013 and qualified for the Russian Chess Championship in 2013, eventually finishing in eighth place.[4]

References

  1. ↑ FIDE Title Application (IM) FIDE Accessed 28 December 2014
  2. ↑ FIDE Title Applications (GM) FIDE Accessed 28 December 2014
  3. ↑ Lev Polugaevsky Memorial concluded in Samara Chessdom Published 13 July 2012
  4. ↑ Russian Superfinal: Svidler, Gunina win Chessbase Published 14 October 2013


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