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Coach Rose | rose.hermovenext@gmail.com

Rose Morden is currently a senior at the Brooklyn Technical High School. She has two older sisters, Estelle and Simone, and two rescued black cats.

Rose has been playing chess since she was five years old, entering just her second rated tournament into the KCF All-Girls National Championships in Chicago, Illinois. Seeing all those girls together, defying gender stereotypes, motivated her to ensure that all girls had opportunities to play chess, like her.

Currently, Rose has a US Chess rating of 1775, having played in over 300 tournaments. Her chess journey started in elementary schools in P.S. 116 and P.S. 33, then to the Salk School of Science for middle school before culminating at Brooklyn Technical High School. While at P.S. 33, Rose was coached by Coach Angel, who inspired her to not only train hard and play hard, but also to have fun.

One of Rose’s biggest chess accomplishments was in 2019, when she won the All Girls K-6 New York State Championship. In that tournament, she won all six consecutive games against opponents, rated both lower and higher than her. She was awarded a certificate granting her three free tournament passes from the Continental Chess Association. Some of her other noteworthy chess accomplishments, including placing third and winning a FIDE Women’s Candidate Master norm in the 2019 North American Youth Chess Championship (NAYCC in Kingston, Ontario).

When it comes to HerMoveNext Foundation Inc’s Her League, Rose has been coaching 6 years in the online monthly rapid tournaments and occasionally instructing in the weekly training sessions, too. Rose is also active in the HerMoveNext Foundation with Her Funds, a financial literacy program, and with the Her News blog. Please see Rose’s article, The Evolution of Chess for Her News. Besides coaching HerMoveNext’s membership, Rose’s other coaching experiences include, coaching her cousins and their former classmates in the Henderson School chess program, to coaching beginning students in Brooklyn Tech Girl’s Chess Club. Her favorite activities other than chess are: Taekwondo, writing, Hip-hop dancing, collecting rubber ducks, and traveling.