Also, if I recall correctly, in Inside Chess Seirawan commented that Rachels should have played *anything* but 1)...d5 in response because it was clear opening prep by a player who only play[s] 1)e4.

It was only the second time Wolff employed 1.d4 in his life, the first being when he had illegally set up the board, according to notes I once read from Inside Chess.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

We have none between Seirawan and Wolff, but this database indicates they played at least twice:

<Fischer struggled in the later Buenos Aires tournament, finishing with 8½/19 (won by Viktor Korchnoi and Samuel Reshevsky on 13/19). This was the only real failure of Fischer's competitive career. According to Larry Evans, Fischer's first sexual experience was with a girl to whom Evans introduced him during the tournament. Pal Benko says that Fischer did horribly in the tournament "because he got caught up in women and sex. Afterwards, Fischer said he'd never mix women and chess together, and kept the promise."> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_...

Benko, OTOH, claimed that he got crushed in Fischer vs Benko, 1963 because he <didn't> get any action the previous night:

<Everyone thinks that this Rf6 game against me was something special, but I don't know what's so great about it. I was exhausted for this game. I was up all night necking in a car with a young lady...kissing and kissing. But it didn't go beyond that, so the combination of no sleep and frustration led to me losing badly to Bobby.>

By that, I mean to write about his activities in such a fashion as to allow the bio not to depend on his actual current non-chess activities.

https://www.hfalert.com/search.pl?A...

He is in the process of shutting down the hedge fund we don't even mention in the above.

But the idea is right, just leave his bio open-ended (people can always go to wiki to see what he's doing post-chess)

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From the NYTimes article, as to why he decided not to become a full-time professional (even if qualified):

<Unlike Wilder, Wolff spent several years as a professional player. He had enrolled at Yale, but after being awarded a Samford Fellowship in 1989 — which is usually given to one top young player each year and comes with a $32,000 annual stipend for two years — he took time off to purse chess full time.

“I never expected to be a professional indefinitely,” he said. “But it was fantastic fun.”

A turning point came in 1992, when he was hired to help Viswanathan Anand, the current world champion, to prepare for a match. The experience tipped him over the edge, he said.>

Although he did compete in Biel 1993. Soon afterwards he returned to college, graduating from Havard in 1996.

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Wolff hopes to change a civic mindset that no longer expects much in the way of basic public services.>