Happy Birthday to IM David Simon Charles Goodman (25-ii-1958)

David became an FM in 1980. His peak rating was 2410 in January 1986.

From Chessgames.com :

“David Simon Charles Goodman was awarded the IM title in 1983. He was World Under 18 Champion in 1975. He played #10 on the English national team in Moscow.
He currently resides in New York City where he is a chess trainer for promising young students.”

Here is his Wikipedia entry

[pgn]
[Event “England”]
[Site “England”]
[Date “1978.??.??”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Goodman, David SC”]
[Black “Nunn, John DM”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A28”]
[WhiteElo “2320”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “47”]
[EventDate “1978.??.??”]
[EventType “game”]
[EventRounds “1”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2010”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2010.11.25”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2010.11.25”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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347,347,347,347,381,392,760,29996,29997,29998]} 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6
4. e3 Bb4 5. Qc2 O-O 6. Nd5 Re8 7. Qf5 {First played in 1977 by Keene versus
Korchnoi.} d6 8. Nxf6+ gxf6 9. Qh5 d5 10. a3 Bf8 11. d4 Be6 12. Bd3 e4 13. Bc2
Ne7 14. Nd2 f5 15. cxd5 Qxd5 16. f3 Qc6 $11 17. Nxe4 Qxc2 $2 (17… Nd5 18. Nc5
Bxc5 19. dxc5 Qxc5 20. Bd3 $11) 18. Nf6+ $18 Kg7 19. e4 Qxc1+ 20. Rxc1 Kxf6 21.
Qxh7 Ng6 22. e5+ Kg5 23. h4+ Kf4 24. Kf2 1-0
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