Alexander Goldin

Alexander Goldin is an American chess grandmaster of Russian origin.
Goldin had success from a young age. In 1981 he won the USSR Under-18 Championship. He was a joint winner of the Soviet Championship semifinal at Sevastopol in 1986. Other tournament successes include winning the Philadelphia's World Open [chess tournament|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.