FIDE - World Chess Federation, Online ratings, individual calculations Comprehensive Kenneth Rogoff chess games collection, opening repertoire, tournament history, PGN download, biography and news 365Chess.com Biggest Chess Games Database Online If you already have a username, He is currently a professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University. FIDE player card for Kenneth Rogoff. Next question: what fraction of all the voters are ignorant this way? The outcome of the game was never in doubt. The rest are *knowingly* voting for @#$@%#!. Jeremy and I went to MIT graduate school, John went to Harvard, John had more fun. Same as their adherents in the Rogovian miasma, the Republican capacity for hypocrisy is staggering. By 16, I was U.S. under-21 champion and representing the United States in the World championships in Stockholm (picture).    US Championship 1974 by Phony Benoni Ken Rogoff Chess Highlights by GumboGambit Than you lose when you�re not popular. I am fortunate that MIT was very accommodating about all this. I lived on my own, mainly in Yugoslavia (Zagrab and Sarajevo), supporting myself with my prize winnings. NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?] Early in his economics career, Rogoff served as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and also at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In addition, I’m mutating into a bona fide establishment economist. They can't even agree on uniform military weaponry for NATO, which is why the USA is ultimately stuck with the big responsibility of guarding Europe from Russian hegemony. ISBN 0-273-07078-9. I learned the moves from my father at age 6, but took up the game in earnest when I got a chess set for my 13th birthday. England bears no responsibility for their having zero ability to manage their own affairs. Search FIDE database. In many grade schools today, particularly in California and New York, chess is considered cool and on par with playing soccer. At Yale, I played chess only in the summers, mainly living off ideas I had developed in high school. G30 I�m still working on each of those things, and thank those who are willing to debate honestly. Kenneth Saul 'Ken' Rogoff (born March 22, 1953) is an American economist and chess Grandmaster. He was soon recognised as a chess prodigy. This forum is for this specific player only. 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. When eighteen, he made the decision to go to college and pursue a career in economics rather than to become a professional player, although he continued to play and improve for several years afterward. Happily, Yale University decided to ignore the many holes in my high school transcript, and admitted me to the class of 1975. They contribute to the SS pool, Medicare, Medicaid and the defense budget. Their constantly bailing out Greece and Italy is a black hole of money, a sink hole. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If this thread has taught me anything, it�s to not let yourself be cast in a false light, do not let live, do your best to keep to your point, and disengage when there is nothing to be gained. Jagdish Bhagwati, the distinguished trade economist now at Columbia, was also an important influence. Here is an article (pdf) containing leading chess columnist grandmaster Lubosh Kavelek's notes. John Maynard Keynes. 2020. “ Digital Currencies and Stablecoins: Risks, Opportunities and Challenges Ahead ”. I, myself, liked playing basketball, baseball and football with my friends. Here is a list of the states that get the biggest handouts from Uncle Sugar -- and it's *your* money, collected from the states like New York that contribute the most in taxes: (I was off a bit. visit the Kibitzer's Café. Enter ID or Name. And, of course, there are still articles that touch on my chess career without getting into actual games, for example The New York Times, July 4, 2010.  For a more extensive interview on chess and a couple selected games see New in Chess, January 2011 (pdf). My own views are summarized in my December 12 Project Syndicate column Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis?  And here is my take on the 2015 Hollywood film, "Pawn Sacrifice," on the life of Bobby Fischer, directed by Edward Zwick and starring Tobey Maguire.  The Zwick film, of course, centers on the classic 1972 World Chess Championship between Fischer and Russian Boris Spassky.  In 2016, I had the honor of making the first move in game six of the world championship match between Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and Russian Sergey Karjakin, and I also did commentary in game 1 with Judith Polgar.  Here is a January 2017 column for Chess Life magazine, My Best Move, where I chose a game from first board of the 1972 world under-26 team championship in Graz, Austria, where my opponent was then leading Russian grandmaster Vladimir Tukmakov, who is still very much involved with chess and very recently has started working with rising superstar Wesley So.  For some of my reflections on the state of chess today, see the March 23, 2018 Chessbase interview and December 4, 2018 CNBC Squawkbox. He came third in the World Junior Championship of 1971 and finished second in the US Championship of 1975, which doubled as a Zonal competition, one-half point behind Walter Shawn Browne this result qualified him for the 1976 Interzonal at Biel, where he finished 13-15th. (OK, it is true that chess was big among rock stars and movie stars at the time, and my best friend in chess, Kim Commons, could count people like Mel Brooks and the entire Jefferson Airplane band among his students.). There is no such thing as a pure prodigy in chess, and I worked very hard at it. Many are true bona fide growth companies. ) Back then, computer chess was in its infancy, but as MIT graduate student I had the privilege of playing a number of games against legendary hacker Richard Greenblatt’s chess program, which had already reached the level of a strong club player.  As I write here, although I was able to beat it consistently, it was still a sobering glimpse into the future. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members.    Lone Pine (1976) My professional life as an economist is covered in my vitae (or short bio if you prefer), and on my research interests page. Fischer actually wrote an article about one of my games from the 1969 US junior championship, one of the very few times he ever chose to write about someone else’s games. Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart in their book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, using data from 44 countries over 200 years, concluded that once a country’s national debt exceeds 90% of GDP, the economy stagnates and ultimately makes that country vulnerable to a debt crisis. No wonder doe not mind being decribed as a complete idiot - a tag that fits him neatly as his very own pair of Donald Duck mittens. But the manner in which we argue matters. He shot baskets at pick-up games, visited the New York Yankees, and saw friends. Even today, every once in awhile, my games are reprised in a chess magazine or newspaper. Very talented player but Kenneth left chess in 1980 to finish his studies at Yale University. Greece and Italy contribute nothing to England. This personal biography covers my background through my education at Yale and MIT. And I appreciate your viewpoints.    K Rogoff vs O Castro, 1976 1-0 And Trump and the Republicans don't want to recognize what they decided.>. He didn�t, and it hurt him politically. economists, Kenneth Rogoff. Kenneth Rogoff is a former chief economist with the International Monetary Fund and a former board governor for the Federal Reserve System. 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. Messages posted by Chessgames members Here I am as an 18-year old freshman at Yale against 20-year old Anatoly Karpov of the Soviet Union in the World Under 27 team championship in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. Hail! My classmates included (now Stanford professor) Jeremy Bulow (who had a huge influence on my decision to go into economics), and (now Yale professor) John Geanakoplos, both of whom were later to be roommates of mine in graduate school. In August 2012, I played a very casual exhibition rapid game against the world's highest-rated player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway. By age 14, I was a U.S. master and New York State Open champion, and shortly thereafter became a senior master, the highest US national title. To discuss chess or this site in general,    K Rogoff vs Smejkal, 1976 1-0 Though it is not particularly a record chess players strive for or care about, my marathon game (from Stockholm 1969) against Britain’s Arthur Williams established a new record for the longest game ever played and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records from 1971-73. Rogoff, Kenneth: GM : USA: 2505 : 1953: M: i T-FIDE title Parentheses ()-expected rating change N-number of games in curr. It�s not only possible, it�s certain. Search Google for Kenneth Rogoff I never met the great world champion Gary Kasparov on the chessboard, as my relatively brief career ended just as he was emerging. NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?] Yes! then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. Kenneth Rogoff (pictured) was a gifted young Grandmaster of the 1970s who quit being an impoverished chess player for a successful and lucrative career in economics.. Now, some decades later he is the 58 year-old Professor of Economics at Harvard University, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, and bestselling author of "This Time Is Different". A politician can�t do this. Every time someone votes democrat or republican in the US with the thought that these entities are not deeply corrupt and self-serving, is ignorant imho. Kenneth Rogoff served as Economic Counsellor and Director, Research Department of the International Monetary Fund from August 2001 to September 2003. Indeed, I ended up repeating my East High School experience, and dropped out after a semester, but this time I ended up deciding to re-enter a year later. Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart in their book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, using data from 44 countries over 200 years, concluded that once a country’s national debt exceeds 90% of GDP, the economy stagnates and ultimately makes that country vulnerable to a debt crisis. Mentioned: GM Michael Wilder, GM Kenneth Rogoff, Peter Thiel 1:12:30- My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer was a formative book for Patrick. See also BBC World News "Economics and Chess", December 15, 2011, Chessbase "Ken Rogoff on Chess Addiction", December 15, 2011, and CNN Your Bottom Line "Solving the Financial Crisis: A Game of Chess", August 18, 2012. a social science librarian and later became head of the main branch of the Rochester public library. Lone Pine (1978) (Courtesy of Sports Illustrated, which featured the 1975 US championship in Oberlin, here I am at age 22.)    K Rogoff vs A H Williams, 1969 1/2-1/2 I eventually went on to represent the United States at the World Championship Interzonals in 1976. I agree with you about DeJoy, and said so after you sent me the links. from Yale University summa cum laude in 1975, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.    K Rogoff vs Carlsen (Aug-28-12) 1/2-1/2, blitz No wonder the election results favor Biden. I am having a great time discovering new economic laws. World Rank (All players): 893. By my 6 th shot of good Kentucky bourbon I will be singing ‘Hail! At sixteen, Rogoff dropped out of high school to concentrate on chess, and spent the next several years living primarily in Europe and playing in tournaments there. Federation: United States of America. to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users.    K Rogoff vs Steve Spencer, 1969 1-0 Rogoff, Kenneth. until your victory Trump had many opportunities to soften his tone, to use nuance, to show some kind of empathy. . My father, Stanley M. Rogoff, was a Professor of Radiology at the University of Rochester, one of the first medical schools to realize that doctors need to learn basic science if they are to keep up with medical advances over their lifetimes. See something that violates our rules? He was previously a Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and, before that, the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of International Affairs at Princeton University. He is currently the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. I must admit that I was not the best student in graduate school since, at the time, I was still torn between being a professional chess player and a serious research economist. Duffie, Darrell, Raghuram Rajan, Kenneth Rogoff, Hyun Song Shinn, and Working Group Digital G30 on Currencies. I supplemented my income by giving simultaneous exhibitions (where a master typically plays anywhere from 25-75 club players at the same time) and blindfold exhibitions (pictured), in which a master plays a smaller number of players (say 6-12) without any sight of the boards (my personal record was 26, in Rochester NY at age 15). You think they're worse than Alabama and Mississippi? Greece and Italy contribute nothing to England. It�s not only possible, it�s certain. do not necessarily represent the views of Chessgames.com, its employees, or sponsors. FIDE - World Chess Federation, Online ratings, individual calculations B-Year: 1953. Year after year they receive more money in federal handouts from , government jobs, military bases and training camps, etc., than they pay in U.S. taxes. I hear the sound of victory, Strike and Victory by Paula White, music Eminem "without me", Yes! More information can be found at: advanced search Your query: ken rogoff Kenneth Rogoff (USA)--- Kažić, B.M., International Championship Chess: A Complete Record of FIDE Events, Pitman Publishing, 1974, p. 283. I still appreciate it. ), Jim Jordan (R) Ohio "Well, GOSH, I don't think the American people want to invest time in investigations, they want Congress to get back to running this country!". That sure wasn’t the case when I was growing up. 3 and No. However, we did have a spirited debate at Oxford University on November 9, 2012, on whether technological stagnation is at the root of the post-2007 growth. My game against Scotland’s David Levy (who was later to become one of the pioneers of computer chess) is featured in American Chess Masters From Morphy to Fischer by Arthur Bisguier and Andrew Solitis (MacMillan, 1974). Want to recognize what they decided. > Federal Reserve System i will be singing ‘Hail presidency in 2010 bid fide! 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