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Dec-26-11 | | heuristic: <knight13>
college=yale, major=finance |
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Dec-26-11 | | Shams: Great, another young talent going into Finance. Just what we need. |
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Dec-26-11 | | frogbert: it's probably more about what hess needs, i assume. ;o) |
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Dec-30-11 | | Knight13: <Shams> Well, what did you have in mind? |
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Dec-30-11 | | Knight13: <heuristic> Yale is a perfect place to study finance. |
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Jan-01-12 | | jsy: I believe Yale in fact does not have a finance major for undergrads. But it probably doesn't matter since "non-finance" majors are routinely hired into finance. Hess already has a highly valued GM "degree" in chess. Such a "degree" is highly valued by finance (and non-finance) employers (no kidding). Why else would promising American chess players just disappear in their late teens. |
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Jan-02-12 | | Knight13: <jsy> My mistake.
Now I'm beginning to wonder if he even goes to Yale. |
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Jan-04-12 | | Caissanist: Good result at Groningen, tying for first with Ukraninan GM Alexander Kovchan: http://www.schaakstadgroningen.nl/f... . |
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Mar-11-12 | | nolanryan: strong player for the US. awesome for us to have someone this strong on the reserve board at the olympiad. If only Caruana would represent his home country.... |
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Apr-14-12
 | | keypusher: Here's to the POTD! I've liked him ever since I came across this game. R Hess vs Y Shulman, 2009 |
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Apr-15-12 | | BlackSheep: Robert Lee Hess , sounds like a Civil War Nazi . |
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Oct-03-12 | | waustad: Somebody posted on another site that he'd retired from chess, but he's playing in the US Chess League now: http://uschessleague.com/results.ph... |
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Aug-01-14 | | Xeroxx: His games are also available at Hessgames.com |
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Dec-19-14 | | waustad: Happy birthday. The games mentioned in the previous post are video games, not chess games. He plays only occasionally now, with his last FIDE rated games some blitz early this summer. |
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May-23-15 | | TheFocus: <The psychological aspect of chess may be my strongest point. You cannot think how a win will affect your tournament result. Only think about one game at a time, and not how a result will help or hurt you. It is okay to win, lose, or draw a game. It happens. You cannot get stuck on a single-game result> - Robert Hess. |
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May-23-15 | | TheFocus: If this man had a chess column, the title "Hess on Chess" suggests itself. |
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Dec-11-20 | | Messiah: His opening as Black in the 1st round of US Chess Online Qualifier, against Mr. Lenderman, is a tiny bit insane, but, interestingly, he is not terribly worse: 1. c4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Nf3 e6 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Nbd2 Bxf3 6. exf3 Ne7 7. a3 Bxd2+ 8. Bxd2 O-O 9. Bd3 Nbc6 10. Bc3 d5 11. O-O dxc4 12. Bxc4 Qd6 13. Qd3 and the attack on d4 rages wild. |
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Mar-22-21
 | | MissScarlett: Informative Q&A: https://www.sportskeeda.com/chess/g... |
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Dec-19-21
 | | eternaloptimist: Happy 30th birthday to GM Robert Hess! I met him a few years ago @ the St. Louis Chess Club during a U S Championship. I sat in a room w/ some ppl listening to him & GM Eric Hansen give live commentary to the games. The live commentary was restricted to that room & was not broadcasted online. Both of them did a great job. Now I enjoy listening to their commentary on twitch (Hansen for chessbrah) & chess.com (Hess). I met both of them & got their autographs. Robert is a 😎 & humorous guy & he’s 1 of my favorite chess players
<MissScarlett> thx for that link! I’m going to read that article! |
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Dec-19-21
 | | MissScarlett: Do you think Robert would be happy for us to take down his middle name? |
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Dec-19-21
 | | eternaloptimist: Ah so u r referring to Robert E Lee’s statue being taken down in Richmond, Virginia. Perhaps so 🤔...I’ll ask him if I get the chance 😉 |
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Jun-03-22
 | | OhioChessFan: <Hess was also a linebacker for Stuyvesant High School's junior varsity team in New York City.> Probably the most random sentence of any bio on the site.... |
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Jun-03-22
 | | HeMateMe: I'm most surprised that Stuyvesant, a geek 'genius' school in NYC even has a football team. |
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Dec-19-24
 | | OhioChessFan: Came here because he's POTD, read the bio, wondered what in the world the high school football reference was about, then saw I'd referenced it two years ago. Kind of a ridiculous point to include. |
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Dec-19-24
 | | Check It Out: Its also funny that the bio doesn't reference his popularity as a chess commentator. He's one of the best. |
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