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| Aug-12-11 | | dangerhump: He finished tied for 2nd with 8/10. Great tournament for Hess, considering there were over 20 GM's playing. Could be a bright future for this 19 year old if he keeps up this kind dedication and activity. I'll be rooting for him. |
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| Aug-12-11 | | SimonWebbsTiger: @dangerhump
the problem (well, chesswise anyway) is Robert is set to start his freshman year at - I believe it is - Yale this fall. So he will be studying full time now. I haven't heard him talk at all about his intentions at the chessboard. He wasn't clear about this when he popped down to the press room at the recent US Chp. and talked with Jennifer Shahade. |
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| Aug-27-11 | | laskersteinitz: Yes, Hess will be a freshman at Yale this fall. He was admitted last year but deferred entrance for a year because of the Samford scholarship. It's unclear whether he will take part in Yale's chess club and play for them at PanAms. |
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| Aug-27-11 | | Strongest Force: Hess joins other NYC greats that have gone from NYC to Yale: Benjamin, Wilder, Litvinchuk, and Rohde. I once saw W and B at a Time Square movie watching The Mystery Of Chess Boxing. |
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| Aug-27-11 | | Strongest Force: Wilder didn't live in NYC but he was in the Apple often because he could stay at his uncle's apartment. |
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| Nov-30-11 | | feitang: Look what I found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27nu... Very cool video about GM Hess |
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| Dec-23-11 | | waustad: He's presently playing in Groningen. Here is a link to the live games: http://www.schaakstadgroningen.nl/l... |
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| Dec-23-11 | | Caissanist: Ah yes, nothing like traveling 4,000 miles so you could play Daniel Naroditsky, the only other American in your section, in the third round. Thanks, guys. |
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| Dec-24-11 | | Knight13: What college does Hess attend? |
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Dec-26-11
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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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