Michael Rohde (chess player)

Michael Rohde
Michael Rohde
Country	United States
Born	August 26, 1959 (age 65)
Title	Grandmaster (1988)
Peak rating	2595 (January 1993)

Michael Rohde (born August 26, 1959) is an American chess grandmaster and attorney-at-law.

Rohde was rated as a master at thirteen. He gained the International Master title in 1976, followed by that of Grandmaster in 1988. At one point, he was ranked as high as 59th in the world.

In 1975 he was the National Scholastic Chess Champions Junior High School Champion, and the following year he was the High School Champion.^[1] He won first place in the U.S. Open in 1991 as well as several other titles.^[2] He wrote the "Game of the Month" column for Chess Life from 1991 to 2006.

He is also a three time Marshall Chess Club Champion, winning the title in the years 1990, 1994, and sharing the title as Co-Champion with IM Justin Sarkar in 2012.^[3]

Grandmaster Michael Rohde has published widely in Chess Life Magazine, American Chess Magazine, and is the author of The Great Evans Gambit Debate, an opening book advocating for an early Qb3 in the mainlines of the Evans Gambit.

In August 2007, Rohde tied for first in the U.S. Open Championship in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.^[4]

More recently, he was featured on Episode 98 of Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess Podcast.

He currently is a chess coach at Success Academy Charter Schools.

References

^ Williams, Al. "National Scholastic Chess Champions". New Mexico Scholastic Chess. Archived from the original on May 3, 2006. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
^ "Review by GrandMaster Michael Rohde and IM Brian Hartman". Omega Chess Reviews. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
^ "The Marshall Chess Club".
^ [1] Archived January 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

External links

NY Masters
Michael Rohde player profile and games at Chessgames.com
Michael Rohde rating card at FIDE
"CHESS; Rohde Wins Brilliancy and a Double Prize," 1/24/88

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[1] Williams, Al. "National Scholastic Chess Champions". New Mexico Scholastic Chess. Archived from the original on May 3, 2006. Retrieved April 28, 2014.

[2] "Review by GrandMaster Michael Rohde and IM Brian Hartman". Omega Chess Reviews. Retrieved April 28, 2014.

[3] "The Marshall Chess Club".

[4] [1] Archived January 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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v t e American grandmasters
Chess players for the United States with the FIDE title of grandmaster (GM) by title decade
1950–1959	Benko Bisguier Evans Fine Fischer Kashdan Reshevsky Rossolimo
1960–1969	Byrne Kavalek Lombardy
1970–1979	Alburt Biyiasas Christiansen Dzindzichashvili Gulko Palatnik Rogoff Tarjan
1980–1989	Benjamin D. Gurevich Dake De Firmian Denker Dlugy Ehlvest Fedorowicz Goldin Henley Kaidanov Kudrin Mednis Rohde Seirawan Soltis Wilder Zaichik
1990–1999	Akopian Annakov Becerra Bruzón Fishbein I. Gurevich Ivanov Kamsky Novikov Onischuk Sagalchik Schwartzman Serper Shabalov Shaked Sher Sherzer Shulman Stripunsky Wolff Yermolinsky
2000–2009	Akobian Aronian Ashley Bhat Caruana Domínguez Erenburg Finegold Friedel Gareyev González Hernández Hess Izoria Jimenez Kaufman Khachiyan Kraai Kreiman Moradi Nakamura Perelshteyn Quesada Ramírez So Świercz Zherebukh Ziatdinov
2010–2019	Antipov Arnold Brown Burke Chandra Checa Holt Hungaski Krush Lenderman Li Liang Molner Naroditsky Oparin Robson Sevian Sevillano Shankland Smith Tang Troff Xiong Yang Zierk
2020–2029	Balakrishnan Brodsky Daggupati Fernandez Guo Hong Jacobson Mishra Niemann Sheng Sturt Tiglon Woodward Yoo
See also: List of chess grandmasters Category:American chess players