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A woman who started playing chess at the age of six has been dubbed the “world’s sexiest player” after finding fame on social media.
Canadian Andrea Botez, 20, has 515,000 followers on Instagram, while on the live streaming service Twitch, her channel BotezLive has over a million subscribers and her videos have had a staggering 19 million views. visits.
On social media, the glamorous jet-setting chess player shares her interests in DJing, boxing, and also shows off her cosplay outfits.
Recently, he’s been trying his hand at chess and boxing, which is a combination of both sports, where contestants start by beating each other with three minutes of boxing and then do a three-minute round of chess.
In December, a Mogul Chessboxing Championships match between newcomers Andrea and Grandmaster Dina Belenkaya was viewed online by some 300,000 people. Andrea lost by checkmate at the Los Angeles event.
Canadian Andrea Botez, 20, has 515,000 followers on Instagram, while on the live streaming service Twitch, her channel BotezLive has over a million subscribers and her videos have had a staggering 19 million views. visits.
The game, which was invented in 2003 by performance artist Lepe Rubingh, continues for five to twelve rounds until someone is knocked out, checkmated, or wins on points.
Originally intended to be a form of performing art, but twenty years later, the sport has become a global phenomenon being played all over the world in countries as far away as India.
Andrea started playing chess at the age of six, following in the footsteps of her sister, 27-year-old Alexandra Botez, who has been compared to the fictional protagonist of the hit Netflix show The Queen’s Gambit.
Alexandra has six national championship titles to her credit and holds the International Chess Federation Women’s FIDE Master title.
Meanwhile, Andrea became the British Columbia Women’s Chess Champion in 2015, at just 13 years old, she reported. Sun.
The chess player delights her followers by sharing snaps of her cosplay outfits, including an image in which she dressed up as the character Reyna from the video game Valorant.
She’s also apparently interested in DJing, as she recently shared a photo in January of herself behind the decks.
“I DJed with Justin Kan and we hosted our own rave = best night ever,” she captioned the image.
On social media, the glamorous jet-setting chess player shares her interests in DJing, boxing, and also shows off her cosplay outfits.
Recently he has been trying his hand at boxing chess, which is a combination of both sports, where contestants start by beating each other with three minutes of boxing and then do a three-minute round of chess.
She’s also apparently interested in DJing, as she recently shared a photograph (pictured) in January of herself behind the decks.
His sister Alexandra was born in Dallas, Texas and raised in Canada by her Romanian immigrant parents. She started playing chess when she was just six years old after her father made a bet with her mother.
‘My mom just plays a little. So she made a bet that he could teach me how to play and that, in just two weeks, he would be able to beat her,” she previously told the New York Post.
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 18 and under.
She graduated from Stanford University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. She left her mark on college by becoming the first female president of the Stanford Chess Club.