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Chess player
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27 February 1964(Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia)
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Biography
Alexander Goldin (born 27 February 1964) is an American chess grandmaster of Russian origin.
He was a joint winner of the Soviet Championship semifinal at Sevastopol in 1986 (a qualifier for the 1987 First League Final). Other tournament successes include winning the Philadelphia's World Open in 1998 and 2001. In 2003 Goldin won the American Continental Chess Championship in Buenos Aires edging out on tiebreak score Giovanni Vescovi, after both players scored 8.5/11.
In team chess, he played board three for the US team at the 2004 Chess Olympiad in Calvià and registered a 65% score.