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The last six months have been huge for chess, and specifically, online chess. The reasons for this are multi-faceted; Netflix’s The Queens Gambit certainly helped, a pandemic that has sent not just “traditional” gamers to platforms like Twitch wouldn’t have hurt either. Throw in some high-profile Twitch streamers, like Félix “xQc” Lengyel, taking an interest and playing with Grand Master’s such as Hikaru Nakamura<\/a> and you have something of a perfect storm.<\/p>\n

At the vanguard of all this success has been the Botez sisters, Alexandra and Andrea, two gifted chess players and the stars behind the BotezLive Twitch and YouTube channels.<\/p>\n

The sisters rise throughout 2020 was meteoric. In January they had 60,000 followers on Twitch and by the end of the year, they were just short of half a million. They were also, like many of Twitch’s new chess stars, signed by an esport organisation, in the sister’s case it was North American org Team Envy<\/a>.<\/p>\n