Chess Lesson with David S. Goodman, International Master of Chess
Item Number: 1323
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Want to play chess with a master? Let David Goodman help you with your game in a private lesson. David Simon Charles Goodman is an International Master of chess, and a chess writer. Awarded the IM title in 1983, he won the World Youth Chess Championship (Cadets) in 1975. He played #10 on the English national team in Moscow in 1977. The following year he was part of the five-man English team that won the World Under-26 Team Championship in Mexico City. He was a reporter and editor for AP before becoming a full-time chess teacher in New York City in 2002. He started his career as a stringer reporting on international chess tournaments for AP, before joining the company as a full-time newsman in 1990.
Goodman was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and at Keble College, Oxford. He has a BA and honorary MA from Oxford in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
He has a FIDE Elo rating of 2405.
Goodman is currently a coach for the elementary school chess team of the Abraham Joshua Heschel High School in New York City. BCDS Parent Elana Genger says, "David has been coaching my kids for 8 years. Last year Eitan tied for 8th in the country among 6th graders at a national competition. David has been an amazing teaching and a supportive coach."
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