Michael Rohde
Number of games in database: 347
Years covered: 1974 to 2009
Last FIDE rating: 2468
Highest rating achieved in database: 2585
Overall record: +124 -107 =105 (52.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      11 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (34)      B30 B43 B22 B90 B32  English (20)      A15 A17 A10 A16 A13  King's Indian (13)      E97 E61 E70 E92 E81  French Defense (13)      C07 C11 C02 C00 C19  Ruy Lopez (10)      C80 C75 C61 C66 C89  Queen's Indian (9)      E12 E17 E16	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (39)      B47 B42 B40 B22 B33  Queen's Pawn Game (17)      A46 A40 A41 E00 D00  English (13)      A13 A15 A17 A14 A10  Bogo Indian (12)      E11  Nimzo Indian (11)      E48 E21 E39 E31 E20  King's Indian (11)      E81 E99 E62 E83 E97

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Rohde vs Zsuzsa Polgar, 1992 1-0
   Rohde vs G C De Fotis, 2001 1-0
   Rohde vs Seirawan, 1988 1-0
   Rohde vs D Gurevich, 1990 1-0
   Rohde vs W Martz, 1977 1-0
   DeFirmian vs Rohde, 1989 0-1

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MICHAEL ROHDE (born Aug-26-1959) United States of America [what is this?] Michael Arthur Rohde, born in New York, was awarded the IM title in 1977 and the GM title in 1988. His tournament results include 1st at San Francisco 1987 and 2nd= at the 1988 St John Open.

page 1 of 14; games 1-25 of 347  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Rohde vs S Ball 1-0 22 1974 New York B17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation 2. Rohde vs Suttles 0-1 46 1975 Lone Pine A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System 3. Rohde vs A Karklins   1-0 67 1975 Lone Pine C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed 4. A Trefler vs Rohde 1-0 39 1975 World Open A67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation 5. Rohde vs Browne   1-0 51 1975 New York (USA) B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 6. J Grefe vs Rohde 0-1 30 1975 Lone Pine B08 Pirc, Classical 7. Rohde vs L Day 0-1 77 1975 Lone Pine C66 Ruy Lopez 8. Rohde vs D Waterman   0-1 59 1975 Lone Pine B25 Sicilian, Closed 9. Pilnik vs Rohde   ½-½ 52 1975 Lone Pine B06 Robatsch 10. Rohde vs Tarjan   0-1 28 1975 Lone Pine B25 Sicilian, Closed 11. D Levy vs Rohde   1-0 30 1975 Lone Pine B06 Robatsch 12. D Berry vs Rohde   1-0 29 1975 Lone Pine A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System 13. C Barnes vs Rohde 1-0 25 1975 Lone Pine B06 Robatsch 14. Rohde vs R Henley   0-1 29 1976 Lone Pine B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 15. B Taborov vs Rohde   0-1 58 1976 Schilde A14 English 16. J Benjamin vs Rohde   ½-½ 27 1976 New York B06 Robatsch 17. T Taylor vs Rohde   0-1 54 1976 Lone Pine B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 18. Rohde vs Fedorowicz   0-1 35 1976 Lone Pine B06 Robatsch 19. Rohde vs C Stehouwer   1-0 40 1976 Schilde B33 Sicilian 20. C Barnes vs Rohde 0-1 49 1976 Lone Pine B16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation 21. Rohde vs L Shamkovich   1-0 72 1976 New B03 Alekhine's Defense 22. Rohde vs D Berry 1-0 60 1976 Lone Pine C14 French, Classical 23. Rohde vs Seirawan 1-0 58 1976 USA B01 Scandinavian 24. Rohde vs J Meyers   ½-½ 54 1976 Lone Pine A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 25. P Cleghorn vs Rohde   ½-½ 38 1976 Lone Pine B06 Robatsch  page 1 of 14; games 1-25 of 347

Jun-03-05    chancho: Just a damn Draw! Rohde shouted. when he could not win his game against Michael Brooks at the Eastern Class Championships in Woburn. Jun-03-05    WannaBe: Did Michael Rohde boat ashore? Jan-31-06    WTHarvey: I have the scoresheet for a 3 move win against Michael. He was playing in the Open section in a Washington DC tournament Dec 1990. When it looked like he wouldn't be picking up as many Grand Prix points for the open section as he had anticipated, he entered the G/30 section. He would make a move in one section and then go back over to the other. :-) Things got out of hand pretty, well, rapidly. He then devoted himself to the open section and never came back to pick up his scoresheet. He had only completed the first three moves when his clock ran out. Here are some winning combinations from his games: http://www.wtharvey.com/rohd.html Feb-01-06    Chess Classics: <WTHarvey> That must have been the game of the month in his column for Chess Life that month :-) Regards, CC Mar-24-06    BIDMONFA: Michael Rohde ROHDE, Michael A. http://www.bidmonfa.com/rohde_micha... _ Mar-24-06    midknightblue: I love his book on the evan's gambit. Mar-24-06    azaris: Who is Evan? Mar-24-06    keypusher: You mean you don't know <the> Evan? Or his gambit? Mar-24-06    azaris: No, I presume he's some guy who also isn't familiar with the correct use of apostrophes. Mar-24-06    keypusher: Yes, it was my own ignorance of apostrophes that kept me from playing the delightful <Gambit of Captain Evans> for so long -- could not fit the name of the opening into the space on the scoresheet. Then I learned you could, if you wished, write it without apostrophes altogether: <The Evans Gambit>, in the style of <The Maltese Falcon> or <The Bronze Age> . Now it's just <the Stone-Ware Defense> and its affiliated hyphens that keep me up at night. Mar-24-06    azaris: <Now it's just <the Stone-Ware Defense> and its affiliated hyphens that keep me up at night.> I recommend the variation known as <Tupper-Ware Defense>. Mar-26-06    midknightblue: Thank you for correcting me. Kindest and humblest regards... MKB Mar-26-06    keypusher: Dont' have any worry's about's it's. Mar-26-06    midknightblue: <Azaris> Let him have it! I never screw up three apostrophes'es'es in one sentence Mar-27-06    WannaBe: Since I'm on a roll here... More potential pun, "Rohde Scholar" Mar-27-06    Jim Bartle: Wannabe: A good comedian knows an exit line, and you will never top 'Michael Rohde boat ashore." By the way, back in the day I was a Rohde for the Allman Brothers. Sep-27-09    Tabanus: Picture of him as 17-year-old IM, from the interesting site http://nezhmet.wordpress.com/2007/0...: http://nezhmet.files.wordpress.com/... Oct-18-11    wordfunph: <GM Michael Rohde once wrote in Chess Life that there are about five moves per game where Grandmasters don't know what to do and have to think, International Masters eight moves per game, FIDE masters ten, and National Masters fifteen.> from Dan Heisman's The Improving Chess Thinker. Oct-18-11    Strongest Force: My advice: never play bughouse with 3 screaming kids: me and Mike against Dlugy and Benjamin. All 3 would be GMs but they were very young then. I was doing very well against Max but I couldn't take Mike's screaming in my ear and I had to let someone take my place.

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