Biography

Alexandra Valeria Botez (born 1995) is an American-Canadian chess player and commentator, Twitch streamer, and YouTuber of Romanian descent. As a player, she became a five-time Canadian National Girls Champion and won the U.S. Girls Nationals at age 15. She achieved her highest FIDE Elo rating of 2092 in March 2016, and she currently holds the International Chess Federation title of Woman FIDE Master.

Botez began streaming online chess content in 2016 while she was a student at Stanford University, stating that in her first stream a majority of viewers were not interested in chess, but in her. Paired with her younger sister Andrea Botez, she now manages the BotezLive Twitch and YouTube channels, which both have at least 1,200,000 followers.

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