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Kenneth Rogoff
K Rogoff 
 

Number of games in database: 275
Years covered: 1968 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2505
Overall record: +97 -51 =125 (58.4%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 2 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (28) 
    B21 B51 B23 B39 B31
 Ruy Lopez (16) 
    C72 C84 C96 C60 C81
 English, 1 c4 c5 (13) 
    A34 A30 A39 A36 A32
 English (11) 
    A15 A13 A18 A14 A10
 King's Indian (9) 
    E63 E62 E66 E69 E67
 English, 1 c4 e5 (9) 
    A29 A22 A20 A25 A28
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (27) 
    B93 B84 B30 B53 B21
 Caro-Kann (14) 
    B17 B14 B13 B12
 Grunfeld (11) 
    D91 D86 D93 D87 D94
 English, 1 c4 c5 (10) 
    A34 A30 A33 A31 A36
 English (10) 
    A16 A15 A10 A17 A14
 Petrov (9) 
    C43 C42
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   K Rogoff vs S Spencer, 1969 1-0
   K Rogoff vs R Blumenfeld, 1976 1-0
   K Rogoff vs Timman, 1971 1-0
   Huebner vs K Rogoff, 1972 1/2-1/2
   K Rogoff vs A H Williams, 1969 1/2-1/2
   K Rogoff vs M Bertok, 1971 1-0
   K Rogoff vs C van Wijgerden, 1980 1/2-1/2
   K Rogoff vs B Larsen, 1976 1/2-1/2
   K Rogoff vs O H Castro Rojas, 1976 1-0
   Smejkal vs K Rogoff, 1980 0-1

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Middlesex County Championship (1969)
   Norristown (1973)
   United States Championship (1975)
   World Junior Championship Final-B (1969)
   Olot (1971)
   10th Costa del Sol (1970)
   Rubinstein Memorial (1975)
   Zagreb (1971)
   Lone Pine (1978)
   11th Costa del Sol (1971)
   United States Championship (1974)
   Lone Pine (1976)
   Las Palmas (1976)
   World Youth U26 Team Championship Final-A (1978)
   Biel Interzonal (1976)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Ken Rogoff Chess Highlights by GumboGambit
   US Championship 1974 by Phony Benoni
   US Championship 1975 by suenteus po 147

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Exhibition blitz game
   K Rogoff vs Carlsen (Aug-28-12) 1/2-1/2, blitz

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FIDE player card for Kenneth Rogoff

KENNETH ROGOFF
(born Mar-22-1953, 72 years old) United States of America

[what is this?]

Kenneth Saul Rogoff learned chess from his father at age six, but only took up the game in earnest when he received a chess set for his 13th birthday. He was soon recognized as a chess prodigy. By age 14, he was a USCF Master and New York State Open Champion, and shortly thereafter became a Senior Master, the highest US national title.

At 16, Rogoff dropped out of high school to concentrate on chess. He won the 1969 United States Junior Championship. Rogoff spent the next several years living primarily in Europe and playing in tournaments there. He finished third in the 1971 World Junior Championship, behind winner Werner Hug and Zoltan Ribli (second). At 18, he decided to go to college and pursue a career in economics rather than become a chess professional, but continued to play and improve for several years afterward.

FIDE awarded Rogoff the IM title in 1974, and the GM title in 1978. His best tournament result was second place at the United States Championship (1975), half a point behind six-time champion Walter Browne. This qualified him for the Biel Interzonal (1976), where he finished tied for 13th–15th. He tied for second with eight other players at Lone Pine (1976), half a point behind Tigran Petrosian. Rogoff tied for first at Norristown (1973) and Orense 1976.

Early in his economics career, Rogoff served as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and also on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He is currently the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

Rogoff's biography in his own words: https://scholar.harvard.edu/rogoff/... Rogoff's game against Magnus Carlsen in August 2012 in New York: https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnu... Article by Rogoff in ChessBase, titled "Rogoff on innovation, unemployment, inequality and dislocation," with particular reference to professional chess: https://en.chessbase.com/post/rogof...

Wikipedia article: Kenneth Rogoff

Last updated: 2024-06-26 06:52:25

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 page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 275  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. B Larsen vs K Rogoff ½-½351968Canadian OpenA02 Bird's Opening
2. K Rogoff vs Z Vranesic  1-0361968Canadian OpenB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
3. K Rogoff vs M Fuller  1-0321969Middlesex County ChampionshipC03 French, Tarrasch
4. S Reuben vs K Rogoff  0-1591969Middlesex County ChampionshipA16 English
5. K Rogoff vs J van den Berg  ½-½461969Churchill Memorial OpenC72 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O
6. G H Bennett vs K Rogoff  1-0231969Churchill Memorial OpenD86 Grunfeld, Exchange
7. K Rogoff vs M Fuller 1-0211969Churchill Memorial OpenB43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3
8. D B Pritchard vs K Rogoff  1-0291969Churchill Memorial OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
9. K Rogoff vs H Akvist  ½-½441969Churchill Memorial OpenC93 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense
10. K Rogoff vs N A Perkins  1-0361969Middlesex County ChampionshipB23 Sicilian, Closed
11. R Harman vs K Rogoff  ½-½341969Middlesex County ChampionshipB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
12. K Rogoff vs S Spencer 1-0201969USA Junior Invitational ChampionshipB15 Caro-Kann
13. S Hawes vs K Rogoff  0-1411969Middlesex County ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
14. K Rogoff vs M Hawley  1-0291969Middlesex County ChampionshipB00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening
15. M Blaine vs K Rogoff  ½-½371969Middlesex County ChampionshipA16 English
16. K Rogoff vs H Israel  ½-½441969Middlesex County ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
17. R Meulders vs K Rogoff  0-1491969World Junior Championship qual-3A07 King's Indian Attack
18. E M Green vs K Rogoff ½-½371969World Junior Championship qual-3B12 Caro-Kann Defense
19. K Rogoff vs J Bellon Lopez 1-0341969World Junior Championship qual-3A07 King's Indian Attack
20. K Rogoff vs A Urzica  ½-½261969World Junior Championship qual-3C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
21. K Rogoff vs Andersson 0-1331969World Junior Championship qual-3A22 English
22. K Rogoff vs J Green-Krotki  1-0461969World Junior Championship Final-BC05 French, Tarrasch
23. K Rogoff vs S Bouaziz  ½-½451969World Junior Championship Final-BA00 Uncommon Opening
24. E M Green vs K Rogoff  0-1251969World Junior Championship Final-BA36 English
25. K Rogoff vs J Kristiansen  1-0351969World Junior Championship Final-BB69 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 11.Bxf6
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Jul-22-22  George Wallace: < Cassandro: <saffuna: Van Jones is not a favorite of mine. He's always playing the "let's just get along" card> Get along? How dare he! Can't have that.>

For <the tuna>, it's "Us vs Them" and nothing more than that.

He doesn't dissect the issues or argue the fine points.

Jul-22-22  stone free or die: Oh lookie, <bippy> managed to work the N-word into his post.

Clever boy.

Gotta ask - do I believe the story?!

Nope, not a single word of it, N or otherwise.

Jul-22-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <fra diavolo>, if 'America is finished', as you have proclaimed innumerable times, why would you care about a potential civil war?

Do tell, <empty response>.

Jul-22-22  Z free or die: <<Fred> Thanks. Good targets make for good posts.>

Fred, who are you thanking here?

Jul-22-22  Fyffe123: Send in the the white-hooded clown ....

While <gw> never dissects an issue or argues valid points, he does provide some comic relief

Jul-22-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: <Steve Bannon outside court complaining that the "elites" want to shut him up.>

I think the 'elites' threw Bannon out of the Republican party even before Trump became president. It's not that they had any scruples about Bannon's activities. I think Bannon became just a little bit too well known, brought light to parts of the GOP that would prefer to remain in the shadows.

Trump took a look at Bannon too, then realized he was damaged goods and dumped him.

Jul-22-22  Rdb: after 16 years of meditation (and 15 years of psychology/ontology/philosophy before that ) finally I look like to be reaching that state which is threshold of enlightenment (delta brain wave activity level) .

At any time now (at will) , I can reach a state that one is in when one is just about to fall sleep (and yet I am fully awake and alert) - no thoughts whatsoever , very restful state , alpha/theta brain wave activity level , breath in the rhythm of ajapa mantra * - and in addition abiding deeply in Absolute/Atman ('watching' clearly/deeply both the witnesses viz (i) consciousness and (ii) Absolute/Atman)

Very alert/awake and yet as if asleep.

Now , I need to stabilize in this state , I need to be in this state all day , every waking moment , 24/7.

Once we stabilize in this state , we are supposed to be on threshold of enlightenment . From this state , it took nisargadatta maharaj , 3 years (three years) to get enlightened (I might take much more than that perhaps because my genes are 'difgicult'/'bad' or may be around 3 years only ...Who knows ,...Let us see)

*Ajapa mantra : when you are just about to fall asleep , your breath is in a restful rhythm if you ever noticed or may be you saw a child sleeping and noticed that its breath is in a restful rhythm - that is rhythm of ajapa mantra ...If you mentally recite mantra synchronized with breath , eventually breath gets in that rhythm , and eventually , your breath gets in that rhythm even when you not reciting mantra mentally

Jul-22-22  diceman: <saffuna:

Van Jones is not a favorite of mine.>

Jim believes less blacks is <a better situation.>

Jul-22-22  diceman: <HeMateMe:

I think>

My guess would be August 12 1979 was about the last time?

<I think the 'elites' threw Bannon out of the Republican party even before Trump became president.>

Dummy!

Jul-22-22  diceman: <saffuna: Liberal bubble?>

Dummy who don't know nothing mode engaged!

<They were ALL Trump staffers who testified.>

Yeah?

Here's Trump's Republican representation on the Stalinist Show Trial/Illegitimate/Liar/Hearsay/Committee:

<Rep. Liz Cheney says she 'will do everything' she can to make sure that Trump 'never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office'.>

Liar saffuna always demands things be fair and balanced.

Jul-22-22  Fyffe123: Old Democrat Goebbels <dice>, Trumpian to the core, demands that the ex-president's Big Lie be treated in a fair and balanced manner.
Jul-22-22  diceman: <HeMateMe:

I think the 'elites'>

I wonder when HeMateMe left America?

He must think the <elites> supply him with the back of the bus he's in, and the <free> Fried Chicken and Watermelon?

Even HeMateMe knows, Watermelon and Fried Chicken doesn't fall from the sky!

Jul-22-22  diceman: <al wazir:

You don't follow the MSM because you think they're biased. But if you don't follow them, how do you know they're biased?>

Goebbels parrots like you tell us.

Jul-22-22  nok: <My guess would be August 12 1979 was about the last time?>

What does this refer to? Disco demolition night?

Khomeini banning disco?

Jul-22-22  diceman: <HeMateMe: every president gets blamed for everything bad that's happening. That's why 'favorable job approval' polls are mostly stupid and unimportant.>

Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump,
Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump!!!

Until Biden is fraudulently <elected> then everyone does it and nothing matters.

<That's why 'favorable job approval' polls are mostly stupid and unimportant.>

Which is why libs post them when Hillary has Trump beat, and Biden is ahead of where Trump was.

(Where is chancho with those Biden is killing it polls?)

Jul-22-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  saffuna: The J6 committee really laid it on Senator Hawley last night. They showed him giving him famous fist pump to the soon-to-be rioters, then showed video of him running away from those same rioters. Twice. Once at regular speed. Once in slow motion

Wasn't all that relevant, but it sure was great to watch. Hawley is now dead as far as any future political hopes are concerned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqp...

Jul-22-22  cormier: Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene

Lectionary: 603
Reading I

Sgs 3:1-4b

The Bride says:
On my bed at night I sought him
whom my heart loves–
I sought him but I did not find him.
I will rise then and go about the city;
in the streets and crossings I will seek
Him whom my heart loves.
I sought him but I did not find him.
The watchmen came upon me,
as they made their rounds of the city:
Have you seen him whom my heart loves?
I had hardly left them
when I found him whom my heart loves.

OR:

2 Cor 5:14-17

Brothers and sisters:
The love of Christ impels us,
once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died.
He indeed died for all,
so that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.

Consequently, from now on we regard no one according to the flesh; even if we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no longer.
So whoever is in Christ is a new creation:
the old things have passed away;
behold, new things have come.

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9

R. (2) My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God whom I seek;
for you my flesh pines and my soul thirsts
like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water. R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.
Thus have I gazed toward you in the sanctuary
to see your power and your glory,
For your kindness is a greater good than life;
my lips shall glorify you.
R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.
Thus will I bless you while I live;
lifting up my hands, I will call upon your name. As with the riches of a banquet shall my soul be satisfied, and with exultant lips my mouth shall praise you. R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.
You are my help,
and in the shadow of your wings I shout for joy. My soul clings fast to you;
your right hand upholds me.
R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Alleluia

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Tell us Mary, what did you see on the way?
I saw the glory of the risen Christ, I saw his empty tomb. R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel
Jn 20:1-2, 11-18

On the first day of the week,
Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don’t know where they put him.”

Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.
And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there,
one at the head and one at the feet
where the Body of Jesus had been.
And they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken my Lord,
and I don’t know where they laid him.”
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there, but did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?”
She thought it was the gardener and said to him, “Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary!”
She turned and said to him in Hebrew,
“Rabbouni,” which means Teacher.
Jesus said to her,
“Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them,
‘I am going to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God.’”
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,”
and then reported what he told her.

Jul-22-22  cormier: it's very hard for me not to think that Trump was not a democrat sabotising the republicans. Well, not my bussiness. ... ths G
Jul-22-22  diceman: <HeMateMe:

Biden is for: stronger green energy push>

13 zeroes to Washington

<more secure voting rights>

More locks for doors, pizza boxes to cover windows.

<abortion rights>

Gotta sell that dark meat tartare.

<a strong EPA that protects our water and air>

A strong Schutzstaffel is a good Schutzstaffel

<red flag laws that take guns out of the hands of wife abusers, violent drunks and violent drug addicts>

Because murders follow the law!

...and our laws work:

<In 2019, New York enacted an extreme risk prevention law, otherwise known as a “red flag law,” that can bar individuals who are believed to pose a danger to themselves or others from possessing firearms.

New York state police decided not to invoke that law against the Buffalo shooter>

Jul-22-22  cormier: Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will sign a deal on Friday to resume Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office said, adding, it is “critically important for global food security”.
Jul-22-22  diceman: <HeMateMe:

Big business wants the top 20% to get richer and they don't care if the planet is slowly destroyed>

Heh, heh, Dummy!

<animals become extinct>

Heh, heh, Dummy!

<Big business hates Joe Biden>

Like the liberal Democrats at Apple, who do your data collection and phone tracking?

Like the liberal Democrat Mark Zuckerberg, who funded Biden's election fraud.

Like the liberal Democrats at Google who censor free speech on social media.

Like the liberal Democrats at Disney, who don't mind lil Johnny's dick cutoff without his parents permission?

<HeMateMe:>

Thanks for showing us the moron behind the vote.

Why did you skip your decades and trillions helping black people?

<Chicago saw 92 shot, including at least 16 fatalities>

Blacks are Democrats <special> people.

Jul-22-22  Cassandro: At last! The Biden administration can finally tout a positive result:

JOE'S COVID TEST

Last year at a CNN town hall meeting the quadruple vaxxed usurper-in-chief told us that "you're not going to get covid if you have these vaccinations." Oh, never mind.

Well, thank God he's had four shots already (two regulars and two boosters), 'cause if he hadn't, surely he would've been dead by now.

(Disclaimer: my last paragraph was sponsored by Pfizer).

Jul-22-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  saffuna: <george wallace><The withdrawal <began> a year and a half into Biden's term.>

Want to take another try at that one, <george>?

Jul-22-22  nok: Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Heh, heh, Dummy!
Jul-22-22  diceman: <Fyffe123: Old Democrat>

All he can ever call me is Democrat!

Glad you were exonerated lil jiffinski!

During the <As Racist as Privilege Will Allow> tour. Someone threw a piece of fried chicken. A black man went to pick it up, and was beaten with baseball bats.

Police are now looking for 3 blackface, white supremacist, Democrats of interest.

Racist bigot, blackface, totalitarian, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, and Racist bigot, blackface, proletariat lil jiffinski were cleared by police.

They used digital blackface, face recognition technology, which can digitally remove blackface, to verify Justin, and lil jiffinski were on stage at the time.

You can usually tell lil jiffinski by the <Sigil of Baphomet> tattoo on his forehead, but blackface covers it up.

<The Sigil of Baphomet is the official insignia of the Church of Satan.>

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