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{{short description|British chess player and writer}}
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{{BLP sources|date=August 2010}}
{{Infobox chess player
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|25 February 1958|df=y}}
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|title = [[International Master]] (1982)
|peakrating = 2410 (January 1986)
|FideID = 400351
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'''David Simon Charles Goodman''' (born 25 February 1958<ref name="Gaige">{{citation
 | last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
 | year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
 | publisher=McFarland
 | isbn=0-7864-2353-6
 | page=145}}</ref> in England) is an [[International Master]] of [[chess]], chess writer and teacher, and former journalist.

==Career==
He 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.

Goodman won the [[World Youth Chess Championship]] (Cadets, under-18) in 1975. He played #10 on the English national team in [[Moscow]] in 1977. In 1978 he was part of the five-man English team that won the World Under-26 Team Championship in Mexico City. He was awarded the IM title in 1983,<ref name="Gaige"/> and reached a [[FIDE]] [[Elo rating system|Elo rating]] of 2405. He has been inactive in competitive chess since the 1990s.

Goodman started his journalism career as a [[stringer (journalism)|stringer]] reporting on international chess tournaments for [[The Associated Press]], before joining the company as a full-time reporter and editor in 1990.

One particular "scoop" was when Goodman helped to break the news that Soviet Defense Minister [[Dmitriy Ustinov]] was dead.  The [[World Chess Championship 1984–1985|1984–1985 World Chess Championship]] was played in Moscow's [[Hall of Columns]] where the bodies of Soviet leaders used to lie in state.  After a series of unusual timeouts at the match, Goodman was able to establish through his chess contacts that Ustinov had died.

Goodman left AP in 2002, to become a full-time chess teacher in [[New York City]]. As of December 2009, Goodman is a coach for the elementary school chess team of the [[Abraham Joshua Heschel School|Abraham Joshua Heschel High School]] in New York City.

== Books ==

*''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}}
*''Showdown in Seville Kasparov-Karpov IV'' by Raymond Keene, David Goodman (Paperback  – October 2003) {{ISBN|1-84382-121-4}}
*''Man Versus Machine: Kasparov Versus Deep Blue'' by David Goodman, Raymond Keene (Paperback  – May 1997) {{ISBN|1-888281-06-5}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{USCF|12569577|David Simon Goodman}}
* {{FIDE|400351|David S. C. Goodman}}
* {{365Chess.com player|David_SC_Goodman|David S. C. Goodman}}
* {{Chessgames.com player|37456|David Goodman}}

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