(S+) Kenneth Rogoff: Harvard Economist Talks About Chess – »I Felt Something Addicted«

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Kenneth Rogoff is one of the world's most renowned economists. Before that, he forced a career as a chess grandmaster. Here he tells what the game taught him – and why he was so happy about a visit to Angela Merkel.

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When Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff visited then-Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in 2012, the two discussed not only the economic situation but also chess. "There were large chess pieces in her office. I immediately thought, 'Are they doing this for me? That's nice,'" he told Der Spiegel. He was very pleased: "But then it turned out that Merkel knew a lot about me as an economist, but not that I was also a chess grandmaster." Rogoff has held th…