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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

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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...

Wikipedia article: Kenneth Rogoff

Last updated: 2024-06-26 06:52:25

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 page 1 of 11; games 1-25 of 275  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. B 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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Oct-07-23
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  FSR: Did anyone ever see Ernest Angley, the Bible-thumping "faith healer" preacher? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NV... A friend of mine and I used to watch this freak on TV over 40 years ago. Cracked us up. He died just two years ago, at age 99. His church was in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Like other Bible-thumping Ohioans, he railed against gays. But then it turned out he f***ed men. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernes... Hmm . . .
Oct-07-23
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  chancho: Supporting a proven liar and blue collar criminal like Trump is not a good look.

Why the Evangelicals are still supporting him is a riddle wrapped up in an enigma.

Let's face it: They are the modern day Pharisees supporting Barabbas.

Oct-07-23
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  FSR: If anyone wants to read the Washington Post article comparing the health of residents of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York (OK, a little California too), I unlocked it for you: https://wapo.st/3PIYYHt Like <Refused>, I found it quite interesting.
Oct-07-23
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  FSR: If your religion tells you that Donald Trump is a good man who should be President of the United States, your religion is crap. And if you think that Trump is in any sense a Christian, you're an idiot.
Oct-07-23
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  al wazir: <FSR: Why aren't Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York called the PONY States?>

That makes as much sense as calling California, Oregon, and Washington the COW states.

Oct-07-23
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  al wazir: <FSR: The shorter your life, the faster you get to heaven!> So you would expect people who say they believe in Heaven to look forward eagerly to death.

But they don't.

Oct-07-23
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  FSR: <al wazir> I already call California, Oregon, and Washington the COW States.
Oct-07-23
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  FSR: <al wazir> Yeah, I think the Godsters know in their heart of hearts that it’s all bullcrap. No one ever says, “The doctor says I’m terminally ill! Woo hoo!”
Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: <Supporting a proven liar and white collar criminal>

Initially it sounded like you were talking about Crazy Joek Biden, who can't even finish his s.....

Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: Not true al dub. Incapacitated people who have "visited" heaven often report not wanting to return to life on earth.

There are many Christians who are ready to meet their maker and do not fear death. However, this is typically not a trait of the young, who have much to experience, much left undone. It's much the same concept (a mindset of readiness) as a person not yet being ready to settle down and marry, or not yet ready to accept a job promotion that requires moving to the coast, etc.

Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: Not at all bullsap. The records of World History well prove the teaching of Jesus Christ and his death at the hands of Pontious Pilate as prophesied for thousands of years before His coming, showing that the Bible proves itself. No legitimate, educated historian disputes this. The Bible is a book of prophecy with numerous authors over thousands of years, predicting events of the future that came true, with Revelations remaining. The Messiah will return to rule this world. Everything will turn out all right as it should.

It's fact like the lives of George Washington and Dolly Madison and Hillary Clinton. Don't make up your mind without knowing the facts. Deny at your own peril.

Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: The tomb was empty and Jesus Christ the Son of the living God Our Father was witnessed risen by other earthly humans (He ate with the living) three days after his very public death by crucifixion to forgive all of sin as the Lamb of God. This fulfilling of prophecy is why Christians celebrate Easter every spring.

No other worldly religious founder has ever been witnessed alive after their physical death. All the other leaders -- all of them -- are dead and gone for good. No public rising of Buddha, Confucious, Dalai Lama, Mohammad, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Zeno, Zoroaster, etc. etc. was ever witnessed or known. The Bible proves itself -- predictions came true; there is EVERLASTING LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. Better give the Prince of Peace a try, for His message endures for ALL TIME.

Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: Trendy Mankind changes on a whim. Taliban Joek Biden is now putting up Trump's border wall??? Bill Clinton now says Trump did the right thing at the border???

God does not change. God is perfect, omnipotent. God's love, God's promise, God's word does not change. God is the same for all time. You, Mankind can count on God's message, and that includes justice and mercy. God does not change. You can count on Him. The CHOICE is YOURS. All you have to do is acknowledge Jesus Christ and ask Him into your heart as Lord and Savior.

1 John 5:13
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: God knows ALL. God will not be deceived. God knows everything, EVERTHING, I mean EVERYTHING about you. God knows the hairs on your head. God knows your every thought, word, and deed... every day and every night of your life even BEFORE you were birthed. Be obedient. Be sincere. Follow the Ten Commandments. Be like Jesus as Jesus taught in the New Testament. You will not fool God like you fool Mankind. God knows ALL. God never forgets. God is perfect. God knows. God never forgets. Still God loves you and accepts you as His child. Still God waits for you, no matter where you've been or what you've done, God waits for YOU. God knows and loves YOU!! Won't you return God's love?

Don't you want to join God, be on God Almighty God's side??? Won't you let God into your life??? It's your choice. He will welcome you with open arms. He knows you are not perfect. God waits for YOU!!!

Oct-07-23
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  perfidious: <FSR.....The shorter your life, the faster you get to heaven! Or hell, if you’re a Demoncrat.>

One poster who has returned for a foray is definitely conflicted in private and likely has sinned, according to the tenets of his views, so is overcompensating by excreting masses of dung.

Sinner, repent!

Oct-07-23
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  FSR: I also call the four-letter states (Iowa, Ohio, and Utah) the IOU states. A Frenchman might call them the OUI states.
Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know... You don't quite believe Fredthebear, again.

Who do you believe??

You can believe no man for certain. Only God does not change. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Mankind is fickle as the wind. If you don't believe me, then listen to Bill Maher like you have a hundred times before: Biden switched to Trumps policy... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...

Forget politics -- it's much about the dishonest acquisition of power and money. Instead it's time to get on the eternal team of true authority, God Almighty God!!!

Oct-07-23
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  perfidious: <.....She has studied why death rates fell in California, home to some of the nation’s most progressive politics, while they scarcely budged in increasingly conservative Ohio. By 2017, California had the nation’s second-lowest mortality rates, falling behind only Minnesota; Ohio ranked 41st, according to The Post analysis.>

Then there is the matter of non-lawyer Gym Jordan's paradise and its high rates of crime, especially evident after he slags areas of the country which are, paradoxically, not as friendly to criminals as his home district--not, of course, that he ever gets there nowadays, being as he is too busy playing toady to his object of worship and laying imaginary charges against those poor wretches whose views bear the slightest liberal taint.

Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: Forgot the apostrophe. Oh well. Mistakes happen. Donnie understands that.

IOU and UOI and court dates, all that stuff is serious. Driver sober or get pulled over!!!

Don't forget Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGX...

Of course, Blake Shelton has a word or two to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEW...

This goes farther back... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWV...

Oct-07-23
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  perfidious: <fredtheinterloper> posts copiously of dishonesty in others while bequeathing screeds of lies.
Oct-07-23
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  fredthebear: Red River Rivalry, always the first week of October in the Cotton Bowl, Dallas, Texas. It aint easy crossin' that there Red River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV...

Oh, theyiz ah gonna play some football: https://www.koco.com/article/oklaho...

Coach Switzer was a winner on both sides of the river. He has charisma in spades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thr...

Those Sooners stand up to those Texans. Toby Keith was an OU player still fighting the good fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZ...

Don lived on Tulsa Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSR...

They like the comfortable life out west in God's country: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ...

It's a different life after a young person crosses the wide Missouri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvT...

There were harsh days in the Sooner state when times were so dusty and desperate... https://archive.org/details/the-gra...

COVID-19 was real when it took down Joe Diffie. He made light of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMi...

Vince Gill is a super talent who hangs his hat in Nashville these days, but he first picked up that guitar in Oklahoma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VO...

It's a double shot of Vince and the duets tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l11...

Now Les knows his Bible, and how to explain it -- a great teacher, no foolin' about: https://www.youtube.com/c/LesFeldic... It's the same Bible in Oklahoma as it is anywhere else. Give Les a listen.

Anybody ever been to the Winding Stair Mountains? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/40588... It's a rough place, full of pitfalls and critters, campers, shirkers, oddballs, rascals, rattlers, razorbacks, wildcats, two, three, and four-legged, not to be recommended unless a fella needs to lay low for a spell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2g...

No matter how long it's a been, a fella never forgets meetin' Mr. Booger (not Sugar) Ray, and neither does a bear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S68...

We caint leave here without hearing from Gene Autry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRV...

Time ah light a shuck.

Oct-07-23
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  perfidious: Loser Lake tries some underhanded tactics at the airport in Phoenix, comes a cropper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ4...

Oct-07-23
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  al wazir: Well,so much for the trilateral accord between the U.S., the Saudis, and Israel. It was nice while it lasted.

This is Hamas's way of saying, "Hey! What about us!"

Oct-07-23
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  saffuna: <Nobody has any idea where these people are coming from, and we know they come from prisons. We know they come from mental institutions, insane asylums. We know they’re terrorists. Nobody has ever seen anything like we’re witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country.>

Immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country!

Oct-07-23  stone free or die: <<al w> This is Hamas's way of saying, "Hey! What about us!">

Actually, according to this AP news report, it has nothing to do with the trilateral accord:

<The shadowy leader of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, in turn, said the assault was in response to the continued blockade of Gaza, Israeli raids inside West Bank cities over the past year, violence at Al Aqsa — the disputed Jerusalem holy site sacred to Jews as the Temple Mount — increasing attacks by settlers on Palestinians and continued growth of settlements. He said the morning attack was only the start of what he called “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm.”

“Enough is enough,” Deif, who does not appear in public, said in the recorded message, as he called on Palestinians from east Jerusalem to northern Israel to join the fight. “Today the people are regaining their revolution.”>

https://apnews.com/article/israel-p...

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