You’d probably be forgiven for thinking that chess players are sensible, studious people who wear fancy clothes, but these Canadian sisters prove that they can be glamorous and sexy too.
Andrea Botez, 21, dubbed the “world’s sexiest chess player,” and her sister Alexandra Botez, 28, who has been compared to the fictional protagonist of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, started playing when they were six years.
Alexandra has six national championship titles to her name and holds the International Chess Federation Women’s FIDE Master title, while Andrea became British Columbia Women’s Chess Champion in 2015, aged just 13.
Now, the pair have found fame on social media, where they give their combined 1.4 million followers on Twitch and Instagram a glimpse into their jet-setting ways, share sexy snaps and post clips of their chess games.
They have also had success on the live streaming service Twitch; His BotezLive channel has 1.3 million subscribers.
Andrea Botez, 21, dubbed the “world’s sexiest chess player,” and her sister Alexandra Botez, 28, who has been compared to the fictional protagonist of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, started playing when they were six years.
Earlier this year, Andrea returned to chess tournaments for the first time “in years,” but admitted that she had been paired with an 11-year-old boy, who allegedly outplayed her, according to Sun.
In January, she shared a clip on Instagram showing her during the competition at the Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina.
“Chess tournaments in a nutshell,” she wrote in her post, before captioning her video: “I’m so excited to play my first chest tournament in years,” before showing her defeated.
On social media, the glamorous jet-setting Andrea shares her interests in DJing, boxing and also shows off her cosplay outfits, including a picture in which she dresses up as the character Reyna from the Valorant video game.
Last year, he tried his hand at chess-boxing, which is a combination of both sports, where contestants start by hitting each other with three minutes of boxing and then do a three-minute round of chess.
In December 2022, a massive 300,000 people watched a Mogul Chessboxing Championship fight between Andrea and grandmaster Dina Belenkaya online. Sun. Andrea lost by checkmate at the Los Angeles event.
The game, invented in 2003 by performance artist Lepe Rubingh, continues for five to twelve rounds until someone is eliminated, checkmated, or wins on points.
It was originally intended to be a form of performance art, but twenty years later, the sport had become a global phenomenon practiced all over the world, in countries as far away as India.
Alexandra has six national championship titles to her name and holds the International Chess Federation Women’s FIDE Master title, while Andrea (pictured) became British Columbia Women’s Chess Champion in 2015, with only 13 years.
Now, the pair have found fame on social media, where they give their combined 1.4 million followers a glimpse into their jet-setting ways, share sexy snaps and post clips of their chess games. In the photo, Alejandra.
Andrea’s sister, Alexandra, was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Canada by her Romanian immigrant parents. She started playing chess when she was only six years old after her father made a bet with her mother.
‘My mom only plays a little. “She then made a bet that she could teach me how to play and that, in just two weeks, she could beat her,” she previously told the New York Post.
Alexandra’s talent became evident when she defeated her mother in the game., and her father continued to train her for tournaments. Two years later, she began taking her to local parks to find new people to play against.
She was just eight years old when she competed in her first national championship and won first place in her division, Insider reported.
His passion for chess continued when his family returned to Texas. She was 15 years old when she won the US women’s national championship for women under 18 years old.
She graduated from Stanford University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. She made her mark on the university by becoming the first female president of the Stanford chess club.
They have also had success on the live streaming service Twitch; His BotezLive channel has 1.3 million subscribers. In the photo, Andrea.
Alexandra also co-founded the now-defunct social media company CrowdAmp, which used artificial intelligence for more personalized communication, according to the New York Post.
She was still a college student when she began live streaming chess on the gaming platform Twitch under her command. BotezLive account, which he runs with his sister Andrea.
After his startup collapsed in 2019, he decided to pursue a career in streaming chess, a decision that caused confusion for both his parents and some of his advisors.
Looking for a fresh start that year, he moved to New York City and focused on streaming and producing content for chess.com.
At the beginning of 2020, he had 61,000 fans on Twitch, but those numbers skyrocketed when the coronavirus pandemic hit.
‘Chess exploded on Twitch and I was one of the best streamers. I remember being so excited I couldn’t sleep. I had so much adrenaline,” he told the New York Post.
Alexandra received another boost among fans after the premiere of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit, prompting a series of comparisons between the Canadian and Beth, the show’s fictional chess star.