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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...

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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Dec-24-23  cormier: https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveb...
Dec-24-23  cormier: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readi...
Dec-24-23  diceman: Tex Biden vs Corn Pop!

https://twitter.com/ImMeme0/status/...

Dec-24-23  diceman: <saffuna: <Slow start = 0+0+0+0+0+0 = 0>

Then Biden swept South Carolina and Super Tuesday.>

The Plan!

<Then Biden swept>

Jim should be careful with those billion dollar Dominion defamation suits flying around.

Then Biden and his team swept

Fixed (I may have just saved Jim a billion dollars)

Dec-24-23  stone free or die: ROTFLMAO - <dice> posted a video about himself!!

"Does anybody know what the heck he's talking about?!?"

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Dec-24-23  stone free or die: I know at least a couple of MAGA posters (that is, unless Haley gets the VP nod) who might heed the following advice:

<Judah Loew ben Bezalel (the Maharal), in a famous polemic against pilpul, wrote:

It would be better to learn carpentry or another trade, or to <sharpen the mind by playing chess(+)>. At least they would not engage in falsehood, which then spills over from theory and into practice...">

Less time diatribing, more time diagramming.

There's also this:

<The Rebbe Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, quoting Maharal, allows for "genuine pilpul" while dismissing "false pilpul":

"... If, however, a student will begin with pilpul before he has a genuine appreciation of the subject in the above manner, as a natural consequence, the pilpul will be false, and he will waste his time with ersatz thoughts.">

(+) Please though, not bullet chess. Some never made it out of sophomore year, or bullet chess.

Dec-24-23  MrMelad: <stone free or die: If, however, a student will begin with pilpul before he has a genuine appreciation of the subject in the above manner, as a natural consequence, the pilpul will be false, and he will waste his time with ersatz thoughts>

That’s a good advice. The Talmud can teach us about the importance of ethics, education, fairness, humility, debates and discussions, and to respect the diversity of opinions.

Almost as if it is the complete opposite of this page.

Dec-24-23  MrMelad: <Then Biden swept South Carolina and Super Tuesday.>

We heard you the first time :)

Dec-24-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <MrMelad> It will be a very weird primary season, so your guess is as good as mine. I don't think we've had a former president running since Teddy Roosevelt in 1916. And it's unprecedented to have a candidate who's under felony indictment, let alone for 91 felonies in four different jurisdictions. Normally, of course, that would be immediately fatal to a candidate's chances. As you suggest, if Trump got convicted, and especially if he got locked up, that could diminish his appeal to the voters. (Duh.) And you have Colorado and possibly other states kicking Trump off the ballot. And what the Supreme Court does or doesn't do in the coming year, in the Colorado case and others, could have a huge effect. A bizarre and unique election year coming up, with many variables in play.
Dec-24-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <FSR....it's unprecedented to have a candidate who's under felony indictment, let alone for 91 felonies in four different jurisdictions. Normally, of course, that would be immediately fatal to a candidate's chances....>

This is in distinct contrast to Abe Fortas, who was bucking for Chief Justice late in the Johnson administration, could not be confirmed, and wound up forced off SCOTUS altogether after Nixon took the reins, all over a bribe.

Dec-24-23  Refused: <HeMateMe: Niki Haley is probably the one Republican who could beat Biden. Young, middle of the road, no baggage.

It helps too that she isn't an emotionally disturbed criminal.

I think bill Clinton was polling at a grand total of 3% at the start of the primaries, the year he won. Anything is possible...>

The no baggage has to do some heavy lifting there. Try Haley + abortion rights.

I mean all three of them (Haley, DeNonsense, orange felon) are awful in their own ways. But yeah, Haley is the least odious one of them.

Anyway, just wanted to say Happy Holidays, celebrate them however you see fit.

Dec-24-23  The Integrity: <refused: No debate to be had with a faux christian and keyboardwarrior, who constantly shifts goal posts and is apparently unable to recall and take action for his own words. >

Now you’re backing out?

Shifting goal posts? I left them in your hands allowing you to quote any of my statements and force me to defend them!

For all his bluster, he folded quicker than expected. He’s afraid to get started!

From now on, we all know that his bluster is only an attempt to cover his intellectual cowardice.

Does anyone else want to pick up where he left off and have his fight for him?

Dec-24-23  Refused: What'S the point debating anything with a lying sack of manure, who is unresponsive to things he said.

<The LORD wants people in their own nations, speaking their own languages, with their own kind. The LORD expects what we might call race loyalty.

Racism doesn’t exist, so your use of that word evaporates into thin air.>

Where does the Lord say he expects <race loyalty?> Where does he say that adolf?

<1. He did not repeal DACA on day one as he said he would.

2. He coerced conservative Christian and Muslim nations around the world into adopting the gay agenda lest he cut them off from all the aid we were sending them.

3. He did not build the wall

4. He did not attempt to drain the swamp. Instead, he appointed swamp people to his administration time and time again.

5. His administration was run by Jews.

6. He placed homosexuals in very important positions of power.>

So much love for your neighbours/fellow men, it's overwhelming.

Ah, don'T you think I forgot the rest of your unchristian hate driven rambling.

<9. Last year about this time at Mar-a-Lago, Trump threw a huge homosexual party attended by all the Jews and homosexuals. This was an attempt to make the tent bigger on the Republican side.

10. Trump has come out and said that he’s not going to be totally against abortion because, “we’ve got to win elections “and that shows that he doesn’t stand on conservative principles.

11. Trump let a lot of Black people out of jail just to kiss up to the black community and win their votes. How was that different from a liberal Democrat? This was the first step act.>

I could say 2-3 things about <conservative> principles, but it's a) an excercise in futility b) I'd rather leave that to KP. He at least knows conservative principles, so he deserves the <honour> of educating you on that front (as futile as that may be).

Dec-24-23  devere: < Niki Haley is probably the one Republican who could beat Biden. Young, middle of the road, no baggage.> , Nikki Haley left the UN job suddenly to quash an investigation of free flights she accepted https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/... .

Many if not most people who support Trump will NOT support Haley. Due to both wanting to import Gaza refugees into the USA, and being opposed to anonymous free speech (like the Rogoff board!) Haley is political poison to me. And Tucker Carlson has said that if Haley is Trump's running mate he will campaign to defeat the Republican ticket.

Dec-24-23  Rdb: So, I threw the gauntlet and so far crickets .....reposting

<<According to this year’s data, 62% of victims were targeted because of the offenders’ bias toward race/ethnicity/ancestry, which continues to be the largest bias motivation category. Participating agencies reported 5,227 race/ethnicity/ancestry-based incidents in 2020, a 32% increase from 2019. Anti-Black or African American hate crimes continue to be the largest bias incident victim category, with 2,871 incidents in 2020, a 49% increase since 2019. Additionally, there were 279 anti-Asian incidents reported in 2020, a 77% increase since 2019. The other largest categories of hate crimes include anti-Hispanic or Latino incidents, with 517, and anti-White incidents, with 869 in total.>

https://www.justice.gov/crs/highlig...

Dec-24-23  Rdb: Part 2
I threw the gauntlet - let us see if <gezfan> , <the integrity> have what it takes to meet this challenge: <blacks and other non white are being attacked all over america, getting victimised by hate crime and people like <gezafan> spreading disinformation that it is white people who bear the brunt of hate crime >

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Dec-25-23  Rdb: Part 3

<keypusher> <hate crime in America is negligible>

Me : fine . However , 2 points

1) even if hate crime in America is negligible, it is increasing every year due to divisive politics of leaders like Trump

2) even if hate crime in America is negligible , <<blacks and other non white are being attacked all over america, getting victimised by hate crime and people like <gezafan> spreading disinformation that it is white people who bear the brunt of hate crime >

Point being that of that presumably negligible hate crime , brunt is borne by black and other non white and therefore disinformation spread daily by people like <gezafan> is very, very annoying ....

Dec-25-23  Rdb: <al wazir> , other than me , you should block all of these people , put all of them on ignore .

I am the only person here who concerned of your well being.

Hope everything all right with you. Merry Christmas.

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Dec-25-23  diceman: <FSR: And it's unprecedented to have a candidate who's under felony indictment, let alone for 91 felonies in four different jurisdictions>

Yes, no one has ever scared the Democrat cowards like Trump.

<A bizarre and unique election year coming up, with many variables in play.>

Thankfully, you won't have to adapt.
You'll still be a loser at the end of it.

Dec-25-23  Rdb: <diceman: <FSR: And it's unprecedented to have a candidate who's under felony indictment, let alone for 91 felonies in four different jurisdictions> Yes, no one has ever scared the Democrat cowards like Trump.

<A bizarre and unique election year coming up, with many variables in play.>

Thankfully, you won't have to adapt.
You'll still be a loser at the end of it.>

Good post.

America is a great country - leader of free world.

Hopefully , one day , india would be as free as America and other first world western countries.

America and India are allies as emergence of China poses threats to values of free world.

2) I have respect for all the people posting here including <diceman> and <fsr>

Now , that <big pawn>/<George wallace> is banned , this forum is awesome.

Merry Christmas to everyone . Let us all progress towards level of jesus/krishna/buddha every moment , every day

Regards 🙏 🙏 🙏

Dec-25-23  diceman: <Rdb: <al wazir> .

I am the only person here who concerned of your well being.

Hope everything all right with you. Merry Christmas.>

You sure about that?

<Rdb:

<Al wazir> has been claiming on this site in <rogoff forum > for last several years that <pedophilia does not always harmful the child> .

Owner/admins of cg.com must stop <Al waxir>.

Owner/admin must report <Al wazir> to authorities - owner/admins have emailid and other information of <Al wazir>>

Dec-25-23  Rdb: <diceman: <Rdb: <al wazir> . I am the only person here who concerned of your well being.

Hope everything all right with you. Merry Christmas.>

You sure about that?

<Rdb:

<Al wazir> has been claiming on this site in <rogoff forum > for last several years that <pedophilia does not always harmful the child> .

Owner/admins of cg.com must stop <Al waxir>.

Owner/admin must report <Al wazir> to authorities - owner/admins have emailid and other information of <Al wazir>>>

I still care for <al wazir>. We will reform/change/educate him .

Today is a very important day - today is Christmas, birthay of one of the greatest leaders of humans , jesus christ. Let us remember one of the most important quotes of jesus christ <God, forgive them for they know not what they do >

<al wazir> is ignorant about certain things , he knows not what he says about certain things and we all here in fogoffland have been trying to help him and with the blessings of jesus christ , we would succeed in this life time or next .

Like jesus , we would have impersonal love and commpassion for <al wazir> and everybody else.

Amen to that !

Regards 🙏 🙏

P.s. I am in India presently and in my time zone , it is morning of 25th December right now as I post - one of the most sacred days.

Dec-25-23  cormier: <<<<<<Medjugorje Message> (December 25, 2023)>

“Little children, pray until prayer becomes a joy for you.> Only in this way each of you will discover peace in the heart and your soul will be content.> You will feel the need to witness to others the love that you feel in your heart and life.”> ( From message, July 25, 2003 )>

Dec-25-23  Rdb: I invite all left wingers of rogoff forum to think of some good things about right wingers of rogoff forum , today in the spirit of Christmas.

I , a left winger , would go first .

One of the things that I liked about <diceman> was when he called out <big pawn>/<George wallace> for his racist posts . While calling out , <diceman> wrote something like <I stand for prosperity and respect/dignity/equality of every American whether white or black or ...>

Respect to <diceman> for that.

Regards 🙏 🙏

Dec-25-23  The Integrity: <everett: The term pilpul is a good one to know:

<pilpul
A debate over the meaning of a context presented as a debate over the context itself.>

There is no debate about the context because I’m giving <refusef> a free hand to put the goalposts wherever he wants, and then I’ll debate accordingly.

He can do that by copy and pasting exactly the statements I’ve made that he challenges me to defend.

And I’m eagerly awaiting…

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