David S. Goodman

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David Simon Charles Goodman (b. February 25, 1958 in England) is an International Master of chess. Awarded the IM title in 1983, he was World Under-18 Champion in 1975. He played #10 on the English national team in Moscow. He was a reporter for AP. He started his career as a stringer reporting on international chess tournaments for AP. He is perhaps the only chess news reporter who ever graduated to become a real news reporter.

Goodman was educated at Latymer Upper School and at Keble College, Oxford. For many years he lived in the west London suburb of Acton, London. He now lives in New York City.

Goodman became known as a real journalist for his discovery that Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko was dead. In Moscow for a major chess event, Goodman went early one morning to the Hall of Columns of the House of the Trade Unions where the chess event was being played. Upon trying to enter the building, he was told by the cleaning lady that the chess event would not be played that day because an important person had died. Goodman figured out that the only person so important that his death would cause postponement of the chess event was Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko.

Goodman is now relatively inactive in chess except that he coaches some students in New York City. He has been mentioned several times on Imus in the Morning as the chess teacher of Don Imus and his son.

He has a FIDE ELO rating of 2405.

He is also a qualified teacher of dance.

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Maneuvers in Moscow: Karpov-Kasparov II (Macmillan Chess Library) by Raymond Keene, David Goodman (Paperback - January 1986) ISBN 0-02-028720-8
The Centenary Match Kasparov-Karpov III by Raymond Keene, David Goodman (Paperback - December 1986) ISBN 0-02-028700-3
Man Versus Machine: Kasparov Versus Deep Blue by David Goodman, Raymond Keene (Paperback - May 1997) ISBN 1-888281-06-5
Showdown in Seville Kasparov-Karpov IV by Raymond Keene, David Goodman (Paperback - October 2003) ISBN 1-84382-121-4