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Michael Rohde
M Rohde 
Photograph courtesy of newyorkmasters.com.  

Number of games in database: 446
Years covered: 1972 to 2022
Last FIDE rating: 2348 (2410 rapid, 2293 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2585
Overall record: +162 -124 =126 (54.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 34 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (48) 
    B43 B30 B81 B25 B52
 English (24) 
    A15 A17 A10 A16 A13
 Ruy Lopez (14) 
    C80 C89 C75 C84 C90
 French Defense (14) 
    C07 C02 C11 C05 C14
 Semi-Slav (11) 
    D45 D46
 King's Indian (11) 
    E61 E70 E92 E97 E62
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (40) 
    B47 B40 B48 B22 B33
 Queen's Pawn Game (27) 
    A46 A41 E00 A45 A40
 English (18) 
    A15 A13 A17 A14 A16
 Bogo Indian (17) 
    E11
 Nimzo Indian (16) 
    E48 E39 E21 E46 E20
 Sicilian Taimanov (11) 
    B47 B48 B45
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   M Rohde vs S Polgar, 1992 1-0
   M Rohde vs G DeFotis, 2001 1-0
   M Rohde vs W Martz, 1977 1-0
   M Rohde vs Dlugy, 1990 1-0
   M Rohde vs S Benen, 2003 1-0
   M Rohde vs Seirawan, 1988 1-0
   M Rohde vs K Spraggett, 1987 1-0
   M Rohde vs D Gurevich, 1990 1-0
   M Rohde vs D Berry, 1976 1-0
   M Rohde vs Benjamin, 1977 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Marshall Open (1979)
   Pan Pacific International (1987)
   Nassau Chess Club Championship (1988)
   United States Championship (Juniors) (1976)
   Saint John Open I (1988)
   Nassau Chess Club Championship (1989)
   Philadelphia International (1992)
   USA Masters (1990)
   20th World Open (1992)
   United States Championship (1987)
   United States Championship (1989)
   New York GHI (1977)
   New York Open (1990)
   Lone Pine (1976)
   New York Open (1987)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   US Championsip 1987 by Phony Benoni

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 New York Winter GMB
   B Jacobson vs M Rohde (Jan-16-22) 1-0
   M Rohde vs N Theodorou (Mar-19-19) 0-1, rapid
   So vs M Rohde (Mar-19-19) 1-0, rapid
   J Bloomer vs M Rohde (Mar-19-19) 0-1, rapid
   M Rohde vs Caruana (Mar-19-19) 0-1, rapid

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MICHAEL ROHDE
(born Aug-26-1959, 64 years old) United States of America

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Michael Arthur Rohde, born in New York, was awarded the IM title in 1977 and the GM title in 1988. At age 15, he was the youngest U.S. player since Bobby Fischer to achieve a 2300 rating. His tournament results include 1st at San Francisco 1987 and 2nd= at the 1988 St John Open.

Wikipedia article: Michael Rohde (chess player)

Last updated: 2022-09-17 08:38:37

 page 1 of 18; games 1-25 of 446  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. L Cohen vs M Rohde 1-0411972North Jersey Junior HS chA07 King's Indian Attack
2. M Rohde vs D Strenzwilk  1-022197475th US OpenC78 Ruy Lopez
3. M Rohde vs Dirk Ball 1-022197475th US OpenB17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
4. M Rohde vs J Tarjan 0-1281975Lone PineB25 Sicilian, Closed
5. J Grefe vs M Rohde 0-1301975Lone PineB08 Pirc, Classical
6. M Rohde vs Suttles 0-1461975Lone PineA42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
7. Pilnik vs M Rohde  ½-½521975Lone PineB06 Robatsch
8. M Rohde vs L Day 0-1771975Lone PineC66 Ruy Lopez
9. D Berry vs M Rohde 1-0291975Lone PineA42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
10. C Barnes vs M Rohde 1-0251975Lone PineB06 Robatsch
11. M Rohde vs D Waterman  0-1591975Lone PineB25 Sicilian, Closed
12. M Rohde vs A Karklins  1-0671975Lone PineC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
13. D Levy vs M Rohde  1-0301975Lone PineB06 Robatsch
14. A Trefler vs M Rohde 1-03919753rd World OpenA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
15. M Rohde vs Browne  1-05119753rd World OpenB91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation
16. Benjamin vs M Rohde ½-½271976New YorkB06 Robatsch
17. M Rohde vs Fedorowicz  0-1351976Lone PineB06 Robatsch
18. P Cleghorn vs M Rohde  ½-½381976Lone PineB06 Robatsch
19. M Rohde vs J Meyers  ½-½541976Lone PineA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
20. T Taylor vs M Rohde 0-1541976Lone PineB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
21. M Rohde vs R Henley 0-1291976Lone PineB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
22. C Barnes vs M Rohde 0-1491976Lone PineB16 Caro-Kann, Bronstein-Larsen Variation
23. M Rohde vs D Berry 1-0601976Lone PineC14 French, Classical
24. M Rohde vs de Firmian 1-0421976United States Championship (Juniors)B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
25. K Regan vs M Rohde  ½-½401976United States Championship (Juniors)B06 Robatsch
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Mar-26-06  midknightblue: Thank you for correcting me. Kindest and humblest regards... MKB
Mar-26-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  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
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  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
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  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.
Jul-13-13  SoUnwiseTheKnight B4: GM Michael Rohde went +27-2=1 in a central park simul today. The milk shake drinkers were out in droves.
Jul-14-13  Strongest Force: Central Park is where I started. At ICC I had a anonymous account. I used every chance I could get to verbally abuse Mike because I knew he had a famous temper. He didn't disappoint. He was apoplectic with anger and even became an admin to find out who I was. Once he found out he thought it was one of the funniest things ever. 
Jul-14-13  SoUnwiseTheKnight B4: haha, that is hysterical <Strongest Force>. I never would've guessed about the temper, he was polite and well behaved. Although I did catch a look in his eye at one point, in hindsight, i'm imagining it now as slight agitation. :) It was a one and done for him at the park yesterday, hopefully he'll return next summer.
Jul-14-13
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  perfidious: <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.....>

So far as I know, you were the only one of that foursome I never played.

Jul-14-13  Strongest Force: I needed bughouse genius Jon Schroer as a partner against any of the others. Jon is the Bobby Fischer of bughouse and he allows you to think by not constantly yelling in your ear.
Jul-14-13
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  HeMateMe: <tab> Interesting photos.
Jul-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: One picture appeared on the cover of Chess Life & Review and was panned by some members.
Jul-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Yaz looks pretty buff with his polyester suit. Where's Joel Benjamin?

So, Fed always dressed like a slob? He and Grischuk.

Jul-15-13  Strongest Force: Fed and myself were 'street/thug' types. We didn't look for trouble but if it came we figured we could handle it.

The Yaz was the best dressed of that generation with defirmian a close second.

When Dlugy was briefly a pro he also dressed like Yaz....all others basically looked like bums.

Jul-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: <HMM> where did you see Yaz in polyester?
Jul-15-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: <OCF> is he not wearing a nose picker-lapels poly jacket? I may have somehow imagined it.
Jul-16-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  OhioChessFan: I meant, I didn't see a pic of Yaz anywhere on <Tabanus> links. Was it in there somewhere or somewhere else?
Aug-26-13  SoUnwiseTheKnight B4: Player of the Day honors, nice. Best wishes on your B'day many more to come and thanks for the draw accept in your simul this summer! :)
Apr-23-15  PJs Studio: Anyone know where I can get a copy of all of his game of the month columns? I love fm annotated games and his notes were some of my favorites!
Aug-26-18  Ironmanth: Happy birthday, Grandmaster. Spent many an hour following your games at World Opens over the years, sir! Best to you and your, Michael!
Aug-26-18  Howard: Happy Birthday, Mr. Rhode ! It's been my pleasure and honor to chat with you 3-4 times at World Open's, and also at Chicago Open's.

Still remember that time in May 1977 when you made the cover of CL ! You also shared the cover in August 1976, with the late Mark Diesen.

Nov-28-22  Ninas Husband: His last name looks like a typo! :)
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