Alexander Goldin

Association	Soviet Union (until 1991) Russia (1992 to 1998) Israel (1999 to 2001) United States (since 2001)
Born	February 27, 1965 Novosibirsk , USSR
title	International Master (1988) Grand Master (1989)
Current  Elo rating	2542 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2630 (January and October 2002)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Alexander Goldin ( Russian Александр Владиленович Гольдин / Alexander Wladilenowitsch Goldin; born February 27, 1965 , Novosibirsk , USSR ) is a Russian chess grandmaster who now lives in the USA and plays for the US Chess Federation . From 1999 to 2001 he played for the Israeli Chess Federation.

Career

Family and childhood

Goldin grew up in a chess-loving family and in a city that became one of the leading chess centers in the USSR. At the age of four, Goldin learned the rules of chess from his father. The father challenged him at an early age by only giving his son two rooks and a queen to play with at the beginning, and later only one queen until he was eight years old. “My older sister Maggy took part in the quarter-finals of the Soviet championship. My twin brother Roman, who is only a quarter of an hour younger, is also a contender for the grandmaster title. My mother played for her company last year, ”he reported in 1989 about his family.
He is of Jewish denomination.

Early chess successes up to the grandmaster

At the age of seven he started playing tournaments, most of which he said he won. His first coach was Iogan Ioganowitsch Dukart, with whose help he achieved a level as a good candidate for the championship title. Afterwards he basically had no more coaches, but worked with strong players. Since his first major success in 1981, he played as a member of the team of the USSR Armed Forces. At the time, he considered his victory in the Young Masters in Vilnius to be his greatest success in the USSR. At the time he was working with Grand Master Gennadij Timoščenko , a former coach of Garry Kasparov . Until 1989 he played only a few international championships, including 1987 and 1988 in Poland and 1989 one in Czechoslovakia; By winning the latter two, he immediately received the grandmaster title.

Playing chess as a profession

In 1989 he was in the USSR Army, in whose team he had played since 1982. Later he studied at the Institute for Water Transport, but he did not see this as a calling and gladly gave it up to play chess. His 1989 stated goal of increasing his rating to over 2,600 he achieved with a top ranking of 2,630. Goldin took part with the United States team in the 2004 Chess Olympiad and 2005 World Team Championship. He does not have any specific chess models, but he takes Kasparov's aggressiveness in the game, his way of maneuvering, and Spassky's elegance . He also admires Ivanchuk and Topalov as independent thinkers. The recipe for a grandmaster title, he said in a 2011 interview, you needed: 10% talent, 90% hard work, and love the game. Analyzing his own games for hours helped a lot at a young age, as did the joy of solving chess problems. But in general he preferred to spend the time outside of tournaments "enjoying life rather than studying chess". It is therefore not surprising that in 1989 he reported that his chess life only took place at tournaments, and that he reserved the rest of his time for free time, which he mainly spends with his family, his wife and son Alexander. He likes to read and contemplate the life that made him write.

Today he works, among other things, as a chess trainer who teaches promising youngsters.

successes

• 1981: USSR master under 18 years old, together with A. Sokolov
• 1981: Winner of the Junior Championship of the USSR Armed Forces
• 1988: USSR under 26 champions
• 1991: New York Open winner
• 1998: World Open winner (with the best result in the history of the competition, 8.5 points from 9 games)
• 2003: Pan American champion, level on points with second Giovanni Vescovi

Web links

• Interview from 1998 (English), accessed October 17, 2012
• Interview from 2011 (English), accessed October 17, 2012
• Replayable chess games by Alexander Goldin on chessgames.com (English)
• Entry in the US Chess Federation: (English), accessed October 17, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data in the database of www.olimpbase.org
2. ↑ Player Database http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=46214 English, accessed October 17, 2012
3. ↑ Database entry of the US Chess Federation http://www.uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?12556822 , English, accessed October 17, 2012
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m} Interview with Alexander Goldin by Boris Schipkov, Novosibirsk, 1989 http://www.chessib.com/intgoldinold.html English, accessed October 15, 2012
5. ↑ List of Jewish chess grandmasters http://www.jinfo.org/Chess_Players.html English, accessed October 17, 2012
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Chess Grandmaster Alexander Goldin - How to be a Grandmaster (# 9) - Queen's Indian (Interview) , published on August 24, 2011 http://www.onlinechesslessons.net/2011/08/24/ chess-grandmaster-alexander-gold in English, accessed October 15, 2012
7. ↑ Alexander Goldin's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Alexander Goldin's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
9. ↑ GM Alexander Goldin is coming to Orlando ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) English, accessed July 30, 2016
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e} http://wichessacademy.com/?page_id=9 English, accessed October 15, 2012
11. ^ The review of chess events and sites for August, 2003 (accessed October 20, 2012)