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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:
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   K Rogoff vs Carlsen (Aug-28-12) 1/2-1/2, blitz

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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...

Interview on the Perpetual Chess Podcast: https://www.perpetualchesspod.com/n...

chess.com interview of Rogoff: https://www.chess.com/article/view/...

Rochester Beacon interviews Rogoff: https://rochesterbeacon.com/2025/05...

Interview on The Ben Shapiro Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wic... (starting at 30:33)

Wikipedia article: Kenneth Rogoff

Last updated: 2025-06-03 12:54:04

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 page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 275  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. 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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Sep-01-23
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  Diademas: I wouldn’t normally recommwnd trepanation, but your ‘History for Dummies’ begs the question.
Sep-01-23
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  saffuna: I'm beginning to enjoy <mort>'s untethered fantasies.
Sep-01-23
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  HeMateMe: Trump is requesting a separate trial in Georgia, separate from the 18 little guys. Doesn't make much sense--if it's RICO aren't they all in it together, one big happy family?
Sep-01-23
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  saffuna: Trump wants his trial to be separated from the two who have requested trials this year, not all of the 18.

His overriding goal is delay, delay, delay. He knows he's guilty and has no defense.

Sep-01-23  Colonel Mortimer: <House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer questions the full extent of President Barack Obama’s knowledge of then-Vice President Biden’s corruption. Comer said, “when you start leveraging taxpayer dollars in the form of foreign aid in countries and telling them to drop prosecutors so they can turn a blind eye to Americans involved in corruption, that’s pretty bad.”>

Deep State actors had it all figured out. Hillary would win the 2016 election and sweep the Biden family corruption under the carpet. Except Hillary lost, and Trump came in to drain the swamp like he said he would. No wonder the leftoids are stomping like petulant children and spitting fake indictments.

Sep-01-23
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  perfidious: If he were innocent, he would be after a trial to clear his name with all possible speed.
Sep-01-23  Refused: <HeMateMe: Trump is requesting a separate trial in Georgia, separate from the 18 little guys. Doesn't make much sense--if it's RICO aren't they all in it together, one big happy family?>

Kirschner explained it the other day. If I understood him correctly, you can group defendents together, but usually it's the DA who decides how to group them.

One way them would be to put the <ground forces> in Georgia (fake electors etc.) in one group, and the <DC guys>, who gave the orders, in another group. Ofc, Rudy, Trump, Meadows, Eastman, Chesebro, Clark would be fairly in the DC mob. You could say the brains behind the attempt the overturn the election, but the term <brains> would do quite a bit of very heavy lifting.

Anyway, if enough of the <DC guys> file a motion for a speedy trial, they could drag the orange gargoyle with them to an early trial date. Ok, a cynical observer might not, that really should be in Trump's interest, as that would possibly resolve the issue before the election *shrug*

Sep-01-23  Colonel Mortimer: <Hunter Biden’s Firm Traded More Than 1,000 Emails With His Father’s Office, According to Document Trove Released by National Archives>

Fake news, Joe told us he had nothing to do with his son's corrupt business dealings. He told us that during the presidential debate with Trump.

Sep-01-23
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  FSR: Republican presidential hopeful Tim Scott is 57 and has never been married. Is he (gasp) gay?? Inquiring Republican minds want to know! https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20... No doubt <OCF>, who is obsessed with such questions, would also want to know, but he was never going to vote for Scott anyway, what with Scott being (a) black and (b) not Trump.
Sep-01-23  Colonel Mortimer: In other news today, the Democrat Party has sent out a tender for the supply of gas masks at polling booths. They want to insure Biden arm band wearers don't have to hold their noses as they vote for the corrupt potato.
Sep-01-23
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  saffuna: <mort> Why is Trump fighting so hard to delay his trials?

Come on, stop acting so cowardly.

Sep-01-23  Rdb: Why sane/intelligent/mature people like <keypusher> so vehemently oppose Trump?

I will post answer to this question as soon as I get some energy. In the forum of <alexmagnus> , I have to post something and then answer to this question in rogoff forum - these two posts would take energy and presently I am too tired and therefore posting some light posts lately

Hopefully , soon I would regain energy and then post these two posts.

Cheers !

Sep-01-23  cormier: Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said that the European Union should stop saying it would “support Ukraine for as long as it takes”, and replace it with “supporting Ukraine to its victory”.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he met with Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares and discussed “Ukraine’s EU accession talks” and “expanding Spain’s much-appreciated military aid to Ukraine”.

Sep-01-23  devere: "Western economies wither at the altar of climate lies" By Ed Brodow

<Under President Trump, the U.S. economy thrived. In 2023, that same economy—together with those of most European countries—is being destroyed by a campaign of climate lies. One of the biggest attempts at disinformation ever perpetrated is that man-made global warming is an existential threat.

We can thank opportunists like Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Kerry, and Greta Thunberg for spreading the hysteria that the ice will melt, the oceans will rise, and we will all die from heat exhaustion. Contrary to their frightening warnings, the glaciers have not melted, and the world has not ended.

The global warming hoax is the result of faulty science, endorsed by inept bureaucrats at the UN, the WEF, the EU, and the Biden administration. Government policy in the U.S., and most of Europe, is based on the delusion that human beings can control the climate. This is pure nonsense that is contradicted by the facts...

My conclusions were supported by the Global Warming Petition Project, in which 31,000 scientists concluded that, “there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

The GWPP was backed up by the World Climate Declaration, a document signed by 300 climate professors who denied the existence of a climate emergency. The lead signatory is Nobel laureate Professor Ivar Giaever. “Climate changes all the time,” said Professor Giaever, “and it’s nothing to do with global warming.” Climate models, the Declaration states, exaggerate the effect of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide but ignore any beneficial effect. “Climate science has degenerated into a discussion based on beliefs, not on sound self-critical science.”

This month, a coalition of 1,609 scientists of the Global Climate Intelligence Group (CLINTEL) announced a new declaration in which they “strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy” being pushed across the globe. These scientists challenge the hysteria brought about by the narrative of imminent doom.

One of the signatories is Dr. John F. Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. “Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience,” said Clauser, “that has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists.”

Scientists like Dr. Clauser have refuted the claim made by the mainstream media, including the New York Times, that the earth is facing “catastrophic environmental damage, including dangerous sea level rise, entire species going extinct, and even greater suffering in many nations, especially the poorest.”

Dr. Clauser calls the climate emergency scare a “dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people.” Leading nuclear physicist Dr. Wallace Manheimer warned that climate hysteria could end modern civilization. He observed that the new wind and solar infrastructure is likely to fail, cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment, “and be entirely unnecessary.”...

Our economy is dependent upon fossil fuels. A practical alternative does not exist and will not exist in the foreseeable future. Requiring the replacement of gas-powered vehicles with electric ones will further disrupt the economy as the impracticality of electric cars becomes obvious.

Climate Change Business Journal quantified the cost to the U.S. of proposed anti-global warming measures at a whopping $1.5 trillion per year. That’s $1.5 trillion subtracted from our economy to solve a non-existent problem. Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg calculates that in the unlikely event that every nation in the world adheres to its climate change commitments by 2030, by the end of this century it will reduce the world’s temperatures by a mere 0.048°C or 1/20th of a degree Celsius. In other words, the whole thing is a bad joke.

MIT Professor Richard Lindzen referred to the global warming crowd as a cult. “As with any cult,” Lindzen said, “once the mythology begins falling apart, instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical.” >

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...

What to do about the climate cult? I thought that for sure that facts, reason, logic, and self-interest would end it long ago. I was very naive.

Sep-01-23
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  HeMateMe: Trump is attempting the *Enron* defense, die of old age before being sentenced to prison.

The American judicial system works. Ivan boesky, mike Milken and Dennis Levine were never a curse on the securities industry again, after being caught and tried.

Sep-01-23  diceman: <12-Year-Old Boy Shot to Death Found in Philadelphia Trash Can>

Typical Right Wing media reporting.

Trying to make the murder of a 12-year old, thrown in a dumpster, look like something bad.

Headline should be:

Democrat Winner Ends More Than a Decade Long Winning Streak

Future Opportunities Being Explored

Sep-01-23  diceman: <EXPOSED: Whistleblower Steps Forward – Reveals Private Facebook Group Where MI Clerks Discuss STUNNING Evidence of Organized Fraud in 2020 Election>

Dem-Mock-racy and the drip, drip, drip, of Election Fraud.

Nazicrats don't really have the intelligence to cover-up Election Fraud.

They're only about 5 IQ points above the IQs<10 who vote for them.

Sep-01-23  diceman: <Moon Vibes: Indian Space Mission Finds Oxygen, Sulphur and Other Chemical Elements on the Lunar Surface, While Seismic Study of the South Pole Reveals ‘Unexplained Vibration’>

<Unexplained Vibration>

Anyone check if Chris Christie went jogging?

Sep-01-23  diceman: <Arizona’s Democrat Secretary of State Confirms He Cannot Bar Trump from Ballot>

You can still rig the voting though!

Get some of that <Machine Malfunction> going.

(Wink, Wink, Nod, Nod)

Sep-01-23  diceman: <Fani Willis Threatens to Violate Rights of Defendants in Trump RICO Case Because She’s Not Prepared For Trial>

We should have a:

Marxist/Racist/Black Sellout off, between Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg.

Sep-01-23  diceman: <Mitch McConnell “Medically Clear” to Continue Work After He Freezes Up For the Second Time: Doctor>

Medically Clear
(Wink, Wink, Nod, Nod)

There is one caveat.

Healthy Mitch was medically clear to waste $6 trillion dollars.

Doctors now recommend he only waste $4 trillion until fully recovered.

Sep-01-23  diceman: <Just When You Thought Retired U.S. Generals Are The Biggest Buffoons, A Retired Aussie Takes The Cake>

Tell him to go fight in the Ukraine.
Watch how quick the yap, yap, yap, changes.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$ WE SUPPORT UKRAINE $$$$$$$$
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Sep-01-23  diceman: <Karine Jean-Pierre: Joe Biden “Has Done More to Secure the Border” Than Anybody Else>

...and she is a white lumberjack.

Can you imagine the contempt she has for the Back of the Bus?

Sep-01-23  diceman: <Excess Mortality Just Got Even Worse: Ed Dowd Drops Alarming New Data>

<Former Blackrock asset manager and prominent data analyst Ed Dowd recently brought forth worrying data on the Dr. Drew show. Death rates among children in the UK are climbing — and fast.>

<Alarmingly, Dowd found a correlation coefficient of 0.94 between the vaccine rollout and excess deaths among UK children. This suggests a very strong positive linear relationship between the two factors. So, as one variable increases (vaccine uptake), the other variable (excess deaths) also increases in a way that is closely approximated by a straight line.>

.94 correlation?
Not bad for their first stab (Jab?) at Nazi science.

More children get the vaxx, more children die.
Mengele would be proud.

Sep-01-23  diceman: <New York Police to Use Drones to Monitor Backyard Labor Day Parties>

I've got a tablecloth with that picture of JimCrow Joe, french kissing hunter.

The police will be like: Stay away from this guy he knows the Bidens. We wouldn't want to be indicted.

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