Eric Rosen (chess player)

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Eric Rosen
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CountryUnited States
Born (1993-09-03) September 3, 1993 (age 31)
Title International Master (2015)
FIDE   rating 2377 (September 2024)
Peak rating 2423 (June 2015)
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Years active2017–present
GenreGaming
GamesChess
Followers258,000
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Years active2013–present
Genre Online chess
Subscribers691,000 [1]
Total views212 million [1]
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Last updated: January 5, 2025

Eric Rosen (born September 3, 1993 [2] ) is an American chess player. He was awarded the FIDE Master title in 2011 and the International Master title in 2015. [3] Rosen began playing chess as a child with his father and brother and became the United States Chess Federation (USCF) K12 national champion in 2011. [4] [5] While attending the University of Illinois, Rosen was on the chess team that secured a spot at the President's Cup in 2013 and 2014. [6] [7]

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Rosen produces educational content on the online platforms Twitch and YouTube. [8] While primarily known for his chess content, Rosen has also produced Scrabble livestreams and videos for his audience. [9]

Early life

Rosen was born on September 3, 1993, and grew up in Skokie, Illinois. [10] He is Jewish. [11] At the age of 7, he learned the rules of chess while on vacation in the Bahamas. [12] Rosen's first major success came at age 9, when he won the Illinois 3rd Grade State Championship. [13]

Attending Niles North High School, Rosen led the school's chess team to two state championships, and third place in nationals. [14] In his junior year, Rosen won the 2011 U.S. K-12 Championship with a perfect 7-0 score, beating then-IM Marc Arnold in the final round. [15] US Chess called his clean sweep "one of the outstanding individual achievements in this tournament's history", [15] and the Skokie Village Board named May 16, 2011, Eric Rosen Day. [12]

In 2011, Rosen achieved the title of FIDE Master by surpassing an Elo rating of 2300. [16]

Chess career

College

Rosen attended the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign for two years from 2012 to 2014, studying mathematics and computer science. [10] [17] He had been offered a full ride chess scholarship by the University of Texas at Dallas, but Rosen turned it down as it would have seen him playing for the B-Team. [18] Instead, Michael Auger, the Illini Chess Club President and Rosen's future roommate, convinced him to study at Illinois. [18]

In his freshman year, the team competed in the Pan-American Championships for the first time since the 1970s, and tied for first with four wins and two draws, after being seeded 14th. [18] This took the team to the President's Cup, the Final Four of collegiate chess, for the first time since 1991. [17] Rosen's team was the only college in the Final Four which did not offer chess scholarships, and the only team without a coach or Grandmaster. [19] In a "fairy tale story", the team made it to the President's Cup again in 2014, after placing 3rd at the Pan-American Championships. [17] [7]

In 2015, Rosen transferred to Webster University on a chess scholarship. [9] Webster had won the President's Cup in both of Rosen's previous appearances in that event. [10] [20] Playing for Webster University SPICE (Susan Polgar Institute for Chess Excellence), he was trained by Susan Polgar, the former Women's World Champion. In 2017, Rosen graduated from Webster University with a B.A. in Interactive Digital Media. [10]

Individual

Rosen placed 9th in the 2011 World U-18 Championship in Caldas Novas, Brazil, with 6 out of 9 points, in doing so earning his first International Master norm. [21]

From 2012 to early 2015, Rosen's FIDE rating stagnated at around 2300, dipping to 2259 in 2013. [22] [16] However, in June 2013, Rosen achieved his second IM norm, with a tied first place finish at the 29th North American Masters in his hometown of Skokie, Illinois. [23] [24]

At the 9th Philadelphia Open in May 2015, Rosen gained 50 rating points and his third International Master norm after tying for first in the U2400 division. [25] [23] A month later, Rosen gained 51.4 rating points and a fourth IM norm after a 2nd place finish at the 24th Chicago Open, with 6.5 out of 9 points. [26] These two tournament performances took him to his peak FIDE rating of 2423. [16] With his final IM norm won, and a rating over 2400, Rosen was awarded the title of International Master in September 2015 at the 86th FIDE Conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE. [16] [23]

In 2018 he unwittingly defeated reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in a bullet game. [27] In 2022 he won chess.com's online "I'M not a GM speed chess championship" whose 16 entrants were prominent chess players who did not have the grandmaster title. [28]

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