Hi, I'm Rose. I'm a FIDE Master (FM). I earned the title when I reached 2300 FIDE in January 2024. This happened a few weeks before my 15th birthday.

Now I am an IM-elect. I’m waiting for FIDE approval for the title to become official.

I have four IM norms. I earned my first IM norm at the 2024 North American Open in Las Vegas, Nevada in December 2024. I earned my 2nd one at an IM norm event which was held over Labor Day weekend in 2025 (late August & early September) in Charlotte, North Carolina. And I earned my 3rd one in late December 2025 at a tournament in Sunnyvale, California. My 4th norm came at the Saint Louis Masters in late Feb / early March 2026.

I reached 2400 FIDE for the first time at a norm tournament in Charlotte in March 2026:

My IM title application file is here: https://ratings.fide.com/crt/main233001.pdf

The highest rated person I ever beat online is Hikaru (blitz legend and the world #2 in classical chess at the time). I beat him in round 1 of Freestyle Friday on May 2nd, 2025. Here's the game:

Here is my USCF page: https://ratings.uschess.org/player/16303021

Here is my FIDE page: https://ratings.fide.com/profile/30951011

Here is my Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roseatwellchess/

And here is my Twitter: https://twitter.com/atwell_rose

I am the 2026 National High School co-Champion along with IM Eric Liu! We both finished with 6.5 / 7 (it says I finished first on tiebreaks): https://uschess.org/results/2026/hs/?page=STANDINGS&xsection=K12. News article - https://new.uschess.org/news/full-report-atwell-liu-win-2026-national-high-school-k-12-championship. I heard from NM Michael Aigner on twitter that apparently I’m the first girl to win High School Nationals in the 50+ year history of this annual event (https://x.com/fpawn/status/2038856837681049751).

I won the Central California Open in Fresno in August 2025. I finished in clear first. This is the first time that I’ve won an open tournament. Standings are here: https://chessevents.com/event/centralcalifornia/2025/standings/ma

I think I’ve won $100 from chess.com by being the top finishing woman in the Titled Tuesday tournament five times. The first time was on September 16th, 2025: https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-wins-titled-tuesday-september-16-2025. And the 2nd time was on November 11th, 2025: https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-wins-titled-tuesday-november-11-2025. And the 3rd time was on November 18th 2025: https://www.chess.com/news/view/nakamura-wins-titled-tuesday-november-18-2025. The 4th time was December 9th, 2025 - https://www.chess.com/news/view/sevian-wins-titled-tuesday-december-9-2025. The 5th was April 7, 2026 - https://www.chess.com/news/view/movahed-wins-titled-tuesday-april-7-2026.

I also won $100 from chess.com by being the top finishing woman in the Freestyle Friday tournament three times. The first time was on August 15th, 2025: https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-wins-freestyle-friday-august-15-2025. And the 2nd time was on September 26th, 2025: https://www.chess.com/news/view/grischuk-wins-freestyle-friday-september-26-2025. And the third time was on December 5th, 2025: https://www.chess.com/news/view/movahed-wins-freestyle-friday-december-5-2025

I beat GM Luka Budisavljevic with a nice attack in November 2025 in an OTB norm tournament. agadmator made this video about this game - https://youtu.be/m1oiP9GeWWE?list=LL

I was interviewed by GM Mauricio Flores Rios for his YouTube channel. We went over one of my wins from the 2026 Saint Louis Masters tournament and also talked a lot about chess improvement. = https://youtu.be/8w-JQbZUIRs

I was interviewed by WGM Sabina Foisor for her “Class in Session“ podcast. I talked about my quest for the IM title and also my experience at High School Nationals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6YiEvust3k

When I'm not studying chess, I enjoy reading, writing, running, working in the garden, and playing with my 2 little brothers. My favorite school subjects are English, history, geography, & psychology.

Also, I’m a vegan.

I learned how to juggle during the boring Covid pandemic lockdown year of 2020. I used to be able to juggle 4 balls rather easily, and also 3 clubs or rings. But I haven’t practiced much recently.

Many years ago (2014 - 2017), I devoted much of my time to music, primarily playing the piano, though I also spent some time with the violin.

You can find some old videos of me doing music & juggling on this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@atwell8/videos

RoseAtwell