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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...

Wikipedia article: Kenneth Rogoff

Last updated: 2025-05-07 11:52:16

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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-26-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  saffuna: Well, here we have <diceman> accepting the claim that a result cannot be a true result just because that's "how the election turned out."
Dec-26-23  devere: "2023 Is a Year of Record Cold Temperatures – Media Blackout" by Frank Bergman

<During 2023, the corporate media has been dominated by reports of allegedly record-breaking heatwaves, wildfires, and droughts...

This was due to supposed “global warming” caused by CO2 emissions from human activities...

When viewing the record cold temperatures for 2023, it suggests the opposite of “global boiling.”

On January 14, 2023, an astonishing –62.4°C was recorded in Tongulakh, Siberia.

In addition to becoming Earth’s coldest temperature recorded in 2023, the all-time station record was broken in Tongulakh.

On February 4, 2023, the Halifax airport in Nova Scotia saw its coldest wind chills ever recorded.

The temperature plummeted to –43°C (–45.4°F)...

On February 19, temperatures in Shepherd Bay, Nunavut dropped to –49.6°C (–57.3°F)...

In February, the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire reported a wind-chill low of –78 Celsius (–108 Fahrenheit).

This was the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States, despite the “climate crisis” allegedly “boiling” the planet...

In Boston, where officials closed down the public school system due to the impending freeze, the low temperature hit –23°C (–10°F).

This drop shattered the day’s record set more than a century ago, the NWS said.

In Providence, Rhode Island, the mercury dropped to –23°C (–9°F), well below the previous all-time low of –19°C (–2°F), set in 1918.

The Arctic blast flowing into the U.S. from eastern Canada also brought record lows to Albany, New York; Augusta, Maine; Rochester, New York; and Worcester, Massachusetts, among other places.

In June, Sydney experienced its coldest morning on record...

In fact, more than 100 weather stations across Australia registered their coldest May minimum temperatures on record.

Thursday, June 1 saw potentially the lowest June temperature on record in Finland.

A weather station in Lapland, Enontekiö Kilpisjärvi Saana, reached –7.7°C...

the last time Lapland saw a minimum temperature of –7°C in June was on June 3, 1962

Extreme cold also arrived abnormally early in Antarctica.

Temperatures dropped to below –75°C from the beginning of May.

Following the onset of polar night, winter has started at the South Pole, and with it glacial cold at the Russian research station of Vostok.

As early as May 5, a low of –75°C was recorded, while just days ago this fell further to –76.4°C.

This marks a new record for the early winter.

Daily highs are also plummeting, often just below –70°C on the Earth’s coldest continent.

A sudden and unexpected surge of cold Arctic air engulfed several regions of South America, shattering numerous cold records in its wake.

On February 18, 2023, most of the cities in Paraguay experienced a sharp drop in temperature, breaking their previous records for minimum temperatures.

The temperatures ranged between 7° and 16°C (44.6- 60.8°F) across the country...

The lowest temperature was 7.7°C (45.9 °F), which is just 0.7°C (1.2°F) from the national record low for the month of February.

The extreme cold weather caused at least 30 cities in Argentina to break their monthly cold records on the same day.

So, despite the warnings of planetary overheating from Guterres and the green agenda alarmists, it seems that this year record cold temperatures have been recorded on every continent.

Yet, much of what mainstream media has been pushing has been stories of the supposed “record hot temperatures” and “Earth on fire” apparently caused by man-made “global warming.”

Meanwhile, there is always somewhere on Earth that has experienced its coldest-ever temperature record...

In response, we need to accept massive drops in quality of life for the general public, high taxes, energy insecurity, de-industrialization, mass unemployment, and national impoverishment.

The public must surrender their freedoms in order to meet the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Net Zero” targets while the global power elites can fly around in private jets to “save the planet.”

Meanwhile, countries like China, India, and Indonesia hugely increase their national CO2 emissions as they take our industries and jobs...>

https://slaynews.com/news/2023-year...

A good article. Of course it will not influence the people to whom science is subservient to their political beliefs.

To those true believers I ask "When will private plane flights be banned?" and "When will Obama sell his mansion on the beach that you tell us is sure to be flooded?"

It's a very expensive fraud that the elites are inflicting on the rest of us.

Dec-26-23  johnlspouge: < <devere> wrote: To those true believers I ask "When will private plane flights be banned?" >

I recommend moving your head into a position where it can observe search results outside your usual fare.

"attempts to ban private jets"

"Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty"

[ https://www.theguardian.com/environ... ]

"100 activists storm Europe’s biggest private jet sales fair and labeled the planes with tobacco-style health warnings. They’re demanding a ban on private flights"

[ https://fortune.com/europe/2023/05/... ]

"Is it time to ban private jets?"

< Private jets are between five and 14 times more polluting than a commercial flight. >

< Amsterdam’s main airport Schiphol is proposing to ban private jets from its terminals, in a move that may inspire other airports in Europe and abroad to take similar measures.

Under new proposals that Schiphol is hoping to bring into effect no later than 2026, private jets will “no longer be welcome” at Schiphol to reduce air traffic and create a “quieter, cleaner, and better” air traffic system. >

[ https://www.bigissue.com/news/envir... ]

Dec-26-23  stone free or die: < devere: "2023 Is a Year of Record Cold Temperatures – Media Blackout" by Frank Bergman>

A long, long time ago I tried to point out to <devere> that Global Warming climate predictions don't just mean higher temperatures, everywhere, all the time.

In fact, the most noticeable feature will be new extremes in weather patterns.

That means record cold temperatures as well as hot temperatures.

.

Dec-26-23  diceman: <"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens>

Speaking of Dickens:

It was the best of times:

<President Donald Trump: As the president of the United States it’S my tremendous honor to finally wish America and the world a very Merry Christmas.

For Christians, this is a holy season, the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Whatever our beliefs, we know that the birth of Jesus Christ and the story of this incredible life forever changed the course of human history. There’s hardly an aspect of our lives today that his life has not touched. Art, music, culture, law and our respect for the sacred dignity of every person everywhere in the world.

At Christmas, we give thanks to God and that God sent his only Son to die for us and to offer everlasting peace to all humanity. And we recognize that the real spirit of Christmas is not what we have, it’s about who we are. Each one of us is a child of God. That is the true source of joy.

More than 2000 years ago, the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary. He said, “Do not be afraid. You have found favor with God.” The angel told her that she would give birth to a baby boy, Jesus who would be called the Son of the Most High. Nine months later, Christ was born in the town of Bethlehem. The Son of God came into the world in a humble stable.

Whatever our beliefs, we know that the birth of Jesus Christ and the story of this incredible life forever changed the course of human history. There’s hardly an aspect of our lives today that his life has not touched. Art, music, culture, law and our respect for the sacred dignity of every person everywhere in the world.

At Christmas, we give thanks to God and that God sent his only Son to die for us and to offer everlasting peace to all humanity. And we recognize that the real spirit of Christmas is not what we have, it’s about who we are. Each one of us is a child of God. That is the true source of joy.

This time of the year that is what makes every Christmas merry. Above all, during the sacred season, our souls are full of thanks and praise for Almighty God for sending us Christ His Son to redeem the world.

Tonight, we ask that God will continue to bless this nation and we pray that he will grant every American family a Christmas season full of joy, hope and peace.>

It was the worst of times:

<Satanic Terrorist Cult Makes 2024 Endorsement: ‘Only Biden-Harris Can Bring About End of History’

“We want to rush into the abyss so that the ‘end of history‘ can come to its natural terminus and a new Dark Age will be visited upon the Earth.”

“In this new era,” the endorsement continued “might will make right, the claw and tooth will always be red, and blood will cross the land like an ever-flowing stream. The strong will oppress the weak, the weak will die, and natural selection will resume.”

“This can only happen through weak humanist leadership that will stumble its way into war, famine, recession, terrorism, corruption, and human misery. The suicides will leave before the battles commence …

“Only Biden-Harris can bring about this advancement of history, and therefore, we endorse the Biden-Harris campaign in 2024.”>

Dec-26-23  stone free or die: Rogoffian carnage...
Dec-26-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  saffuna: <devere: "2023 Is a Year of Record Cold Temperatures – Media Blackout" by Frank Bergman>

Really, <devere>. So NASA is lying. The Copernicus Climate Change Service is lying.

A bunch of cherry-picked low temperatures proves it.

2023 is the hottest year on record.

Dec-26-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Late last week here, two days running, the high was in the upper twenties, a bit below normal.

Today, it will be near a record high.

Booking action on which temperatures <davoid the credulous> cites as incontrovertible evidence of his, ah, thesis.

Hahahahaha!!

Dec-26-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Wouldn't protesters be more effective if they demanded all cargo ships and recreational cruise ships go solar or hybrid? There are working models out there. These big boats foul the air (and water) more than private aircraft do.
Dec-26-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Better avoid this forum if you're allergic to nuts.
Dec-26-23  cormier: News
| NATO
Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs commission approves Sweden’s NATO bid
Dec-26-23  johnlspouge: < <HeMateMe> wrote: Wouldn't protesters be more effective if they demanded all cargo ships and recreational cruise ships go solar or hybrid? >

That appeared in Google results, as well :)

Dec-26-23  cormier: Ukraine celebrated Christmas on December 25 for the first time in part of an ongoing effort to distance itself from Russian influence.
Dec-26-23  cormier: https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-fo...
Dec-26-23  cormier: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readi...
Dec-26-23  The Integrity: <Refused: You just don't resond to anything. Everybody can see it.

Shall I repost it for you?

<the Integrity: 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.>

Excellent. I’m glad you quoted me so I can see exactly what you want to debate.

I will respond to this quote when I get back.

Dec-26-23  The Integrity: <dice: <Stand-Up Comedian Neel Nanda Dies Suddenly at the Age of 32> Winter is here.
Get your vaccines and boosters!>

You make it sound as if lots of young people weren’t dropping dead all the time before Covid.

Dec-26-23  The Integrity: <devere: "2023 Is a Year of Record Cold Temperatures – Media Blackout" by Frank Bergman>

So much for GLOBAL WARMING.

Doomsday’s been called off.

Dec-26-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  saffuna: <Doomsday’s been called off.>

...only if you believe the crap <devere> posts.

Dec-26-23  diceman: <The Integrity: <devere: "2023 Is a Year of Record Cold Temperatures – Media Blackout" by Frank Bergman>

So much for GLOBAL WARMING.

Doomsday’s been called off.>

$$$$$$$$ 13 Zeroes for Government $$$$$$$$

is never called off.

Dec-26-23  cormier: <<<<<Medjugorje Message> (December 27, 2023)>

“I invite you to be apostles of love and goodness.> In this world of unrest give witness to God and God's love, and God will bless you and give you what you seek from Him.”> ( From message, October 25, 1993 )>

Dec-26-23  diceman: <saffuna: <Doomsday’s been called off.>

...only if you believe the crap <devere> posts.>

<Lied to with pride> is saffuna's motto.

Dec-27-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  saffuna: NY Times:

<A Record-Breaking Warm, Snowless Winter Confounds Midwesterners>

Dec-27-23  diceman: <saffuna:

The Copernicus Climate Change Service is lying.>

Heh, heh!

Why would the <Climate Change> Service lie?

I'm sure if there was no climate change, they would simply become:

The Temps Are Normal We Don't Need No 90 Trillion Dollars Service.

Dec-27-23  The Integrity: <How Europe’s far right is marching steadily into the mainstream>

Notice it’s never the right? It’s always the far right.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2...

“Whether in Italy, Spain, France or Finland, parties that were once outcasts are fast gaining respectability – and power”

A correction is long overdue.

< Giorgia Meloni, whose party has neofascist roots, is prime minister of Italy, and Spain’s far-right Vox, after recently doubling its regional and local vote, could soon be sharing power nationally.

The far right is part of the new coalition government in Finland and, in exchange for key policy concessions, is propping up another in Sweden. Back in Austria, the FPÖ is comfortably ahead in the polls, roughly a year from the next election.

In a “watershed moment” in the Germany’s politics, the country’s far-right AfD has just won its first district council election, after surging in the past year from 10% to 20% and into second place in the polls, ahead of the centre-left SPD. In Greece, a trio of little-known hard-right and nativist parties won parliamentary seats in Sunday’s elections. They included the three-week-old Spartans, backed, from his prison cell, by a leading light of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn.>

Ooooh - gives me goosebumps!

This next part is so interesting.

< “But after every crisis, we have told ourselves that the populists and far right are waning in Europe, and the fact is they have been rising more or less steadily, with a few interruptions, since the 1980s. They are really now a part of the landscape.”

What’s more, Europe’s increasingly fragmented and polarised politics means “a 48/52 split basically turns these parties into kingmakers. That’s what happened in the Nordics, will probably happen in Spain, [and] could happen in France,” Fieschi said.

“In Italy and Austria there are additional factors – a far right that was never really rejected postwar, disenchantment with a system that feels rigged and inefficient – and in Germany, it’s all about the east and the weakness of the current coalition.”>

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