Synchromagazinity

[walterzuey]

(This one is almost too easy but..)

I often have two or three magazines open on my kitchen table and prefer to read while I chew rather than yak. Especially if I'm alone. This morning, I had The Economist and Chess Life open and realized that there were quotes from the exact same person on the open pages of the two different magazines, one of the

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[synodalhaj]

GK I assume.

[walterzuey]

nope

[dmorr]

I even read that economist article, closely enough to recognize the quote... but I have no idea who said it. Someone at Harvard maybe?

[walterzuey]

Yep

[rankest]

Gotta be Ken Rogoff, whom I lost to in the last round of the '71 World Open. He wasn't even an IM back then, so who knew someday he'd become a strong GM and then a world-famous economist?

[walterzuey]

I knew you'd get it right away.

[rankest]

Interestingly, Jerry Lerman was in town last month to catch some Spring Training games, and we were chatting about Ken. Jerry, a master-strength chess player, told me he gets the Wall Street Journal every day on his Kindle. The device reads it to him while he does his daily power walks.

BTW, Rogoff is high on my short list of American GMs (with Fine, Henley, Wilder, Wolff, etc.) who quit competition chess at the top of their game to pursue bigger and better careers.

[fizzycyst]

"etc" == Ilya Gurevich?

[skin_it_mahatma]

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1543378

5. Qxd7

Re: 5.Qxd7

[rankest]

Famous game from the World Student Team Championship, Graz '72. Huebner played one move and offered a draw, which Rogoff accepted. However, the arbiters insisted that some moves be played, so Huebner and Rogoff trotted out a dozen absurd moves before the draw was agreed upon again. The arbiters ruled that both players must apologize and play a real game. Hubner refused and Rogoff was declared the winner.