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To: Ian@SI who wrote (27427)	9/29/2008 12:55:19 AM
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ot - - chess game deleted McCain Economics Adviser Has a Grandmaster’s Rank By DYLAN LOEB MCCLAIN Published: September 27, 2008 Could a grandmaster become a member of the next administration? Possibly. Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor at Harvard, is an economics adviser to the Republican presidential nominee, Senator John McCain. Rogoff is also a grandmaster. Rogoff said that he has known McCain since meeting him at an economics conference years ago. “One of the reasons that I think I got along with him was that I felt like I could say what I wanted even if it was not what he wanted to hear,” Rogoff said. He described his role in the presidential campaign as a fairly limited one. “I speak to the other economic advisers once every week or two,” Rogoff said. “Occasionally I send in my ideas if I feel strongly about something.” Rogoff said he was not “a political animal” or tied to one party. “I have never associated myself with a candidate or administration before,” he said, but “I see Senator McCain as making important changes where change is needed.”In the months before the current financial crisis came to a head, Rogoff gave speeches and wrote articles in which he argued that the financial system in the United States had become bloated and that it was inevitable, even necessary, that some big banks would fail. Rogoff said an understanding of chess helped him learn economics: “The whole logic of game theory, which is a big part of economics, came easily to me.” He also said his knowledge of chess had helped him in his career. “I was the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003, and you are involved in a lot of high-stakes negotiations,” he said, “and chess teaches you to think about what the other person is thinking.” He stopped playing competitively in 1980 because he found it too demanding to balance his chess schedule and his studies, and he had to make a choice. “First, I wanted to do something more important with my life,” said Rogoff, who is now 55. “Second, I thought I was traveling too much playing chess. Third, I wanted to have a better social life.” Yet, he said, he is traveling more than ever, and his social life is no better than when he was playing. “I eventually realized it was me,” Rogoff said. “I could have had a perfectly reasonable life in chess.” Rogoff was at one time one of the country’s most promising players. He helped lead the United States to the World Student Team Championship and placed second in the national championship. That finish earned him a spot in the Interzonal Tournament in Biel, Switzerland, in 1976, an important qualifier on the road to the world championship. Although he said he would consider taking a job in the administration if McCain is elected, Rogoff said: “I really am very happy with what I am doing. For the foreseeable future, I think I want to stay in academics.” Then, echoing Senator McCain’s catchphrase, he added that he was not sure he would fit in at the White House. “I am way too much of a maverick.”