Aleksey Goganov

Aleksey Goganov
Country Russia
Born (1991-07-26) 26 July 1991
Saint Petersburg,[1] Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Title Grandmaster (2013)
FIDE rating 2592 (October 2018)
Peak rating 2643 (November 2016)

Aleksey Goganov (Russian: Алексей Гоганов; born 26 July 1991) is a Russian chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster (GM) by FIDE in 2013. Goganov competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2015 and 2017.

Goganov is twice champion of Saint Petersburg: 2008 and 2016.[1] He won the Lev Polugaevsky Memorial in 2012 on tiebreak,[2] won the Chepukaitis Memorial in August 2013 and qualified for the Russian Chess Championship Superfinal in 2013, eventually finishing in eighth place.[3] 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.[4]

References

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


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