Aleksey Goganov

Aleksey Goganov
Country Russia
Born (1991-07-26) 26 July 1991
Saint Petersburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating 2637 (December 2016)
Peak rating 2643 (November 2016)

Aleksey Goganov (Russian: Алексей Гоганов; born 26 July 1991) is a Russian chess player. Born in Saint Petersburg,[1] he was awarded by FIDE the title Grandmaster (GM) in 2013. The norms required for the title were achieved after sharing second place in the 81st Saint Petersburg Championship in 2009, sharing first in a round-robin tournament in Moscow in 2009 and scoring 6.5/11 points at the 2013 European Individual Championship.[2]

Goganov is twice champion of Saint Petersburg: 2008 and 2016.[1] He won the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial in 2012 on tiebreak,[3] won the Chepukaitis Memorial in August 2013 and qualified for the Russian Chess Championship Superfinal in 2013, eventually finishing in eighth place.[4] He competed in the Chess World Cup 2015, where he lost in the first round to Peter Leko and as a result was eliminated from the competition. In 2016, Goganov shared first place in the Riga Technical University Open in Riga with Martyn Kravtsiv (the eventual winner on tiebreak score), Hrant Melkumyan, Arturs Neiksans and Jiri Stocek.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Aleksey Goganov Becomes St. Petersburg Champion". Russian Chess Federation. 2016-03-31.
  2. ↑ FIDE Title Applications (GM). FIDE. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Lev Polugaevsky Memorial concluded in Samara". Chessdom. 13 July 2012
  4. ↑ "Russian Superfinal: Svidler, Gunina win". ChessBase. 14 October 2013.
  5. ↑ Crowther, Mark (2016-08-14). "Riga Technical University Open 2016". The Week in Chess.


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