Puzzle Battle: WFM Maria De Rosa vs. GM Hikaru Nakamura
Hi guys! I'm WFM Maria De Rosa, three-time Italian Women's Chess Champion!
I'm a Twitch Streamer for Chess.com and this is my first Puzzle Battle against a Top Player! 🤩
Me and my friends, Alex Melchior and Marco Parpinel of Gambito Club, hadn't noticed that the American Champion Hikaru Nakamura had accepted our challenge!! It was too much fun to see that it was already at 8 and we hadn't started yet! 🙈 But Hikaru, from the top of his sportiness, waited for us for a Battle on equal terms! We had the privilege of playing 3 Battles, one more exciting than the other! 😍😍😍
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Watch the full video of all the Battles, but first try to guess who won! 😉
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Maria De Rosa is the three-time Italian Women's Chess Champion (2003, 2010, 2013) and the Director of Italian Content for Chess.com.
Maria fell in love with chess at the age of 6, became Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2004, and played with the Italian National Team in 4 Olympics (Calvià 2004, Dresden 2008, Khanty Mansiysk 2010, Istanbul 2012). Currently she has a WIM norm.
Maria is also a FIDE Instructor (FI) and has been teaching chess for 17 years, receiving the award for Best Instructor of Southern Italy, thanks to the victories of her students at the Italian Student Championships. She is specialized in training beginners and players with FIDE rating less than 1800. Contact her at [email protected] for chess lessons in Italian, English and Spanish.