Country | Russia |
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Born | July 26, 1991 |
Title | Grandmaster |
Peak rating | 2615 (December 2014) |
Alexey Goganov (Russian: Алексей Гоганов; born 26 July 1991) is a Russian chess Grandmaster.
His International Master title was confirmed in 2010 after placing fifth with 5/9 at the FINEC GM tournament in January 2009, shared second with 9.5/13 at the St Petersburg Championship three weeks later (this norm also counting as a first GM norm) and scoring 5/9 at the Chigorin Memorial that November.
His two other GM norms came via shared first with 7/9 at a GM tournament held in Moscow in 2009 and scoring 6.5/11 at the European Individual Championships in 2013.
Goganov won the Polugaevsky Memorial in 2012 on tiebreak, won the Chepukaitis Memorial in August 2013 and qualified for the Russian Chess Championship in 2013, eventually finishing in eighth place.