Andrea Botez

Botez began playing chess at the age of six. She started playing in the USChess tournaments at the age of seven. In 2010, she won the U8 Girls Canadian Youth Chess Championship.

In 2015, at the age of thirteen she became the Women British Columbia Chess Champion.[5] In the same year, Botez also won the Susan Polgar National Open.[6][7]

In 2016, at the SPFNO 2016: U14 GIRLS, Botez placed fourth in the tournament,[8][9] and 13th in the 2016 Susan Polgar Foundation Girls' Invitational.[10]

Botez attained her highest FIDE classical rating of 1773 in 2018 and her highest USChess rating of 1933 in 2019.[11] As of December 2022, her ranking among active players in the world is 67,989, based on her rating.[12]

In December 2022, Botez competed against WGM (Woman Grandmaster) Dina Belenkaya in the Mogul Chessboxing Championship; hosted by Ludwig Ahgren.[13] The fight consisted of 7 rounds alternating of chess and boxing, until a player/fighter got a TKO or was checkmated. As Belenkaya could checkmate in one move, Botez was successful in stalling to run down time for a final round of boxing to get a TKO. During the final round of boxing, Belenkaya seemed to escape a TKO and go back to chess. With only 6 seconds remaining, Botez resigned instead of allowing checkmate and Belenkaya was announced the winner. The win became controversial, as viewers noticed that Botez had actually received a TKO that was not noticed by officials, and the referee for the match was criticised for the way the TKO was managed. The organizer's Twitter account "Mogul Moves" announced an updated result after a review of the fight "...[Botez] should have been awarded a TKO after the referee initiated the fourth standing count of the fight".[14] The update resulted in both Belenkaya and Botez being winners.[15] Botez's sister criticised the ref immediately after the match,[16] while Botez criticised the ref on her Twitch stream[17] and recalled that the ref apologised to her for the TKO mistake. Botez later put herself forward in consideration for the next Creator Clash, a charity boxing event hosted by iDubbbz,[18] while Belenkaya suggested a rematch.[19]

Alongside her sister, Botez runs the Twitch channel BotezLive, which, as of May 2022, has 1.1 million followers with more than 18.3 million views.[20] She began assisting her sister in 2020[21] by playing chess and in other variety streams and the YouTube channel BotezLive which, as of May 2022, has over 800k subscribers and 140 million views.[22]

Because of their popularity on various content platforms, the Botez sisters became some of the most known figures on the Chess.com platform, alongside GM Hikaru Nakamura and WGM Qiyu Zhou.

On December 21, 2020, Andrea and Alexandra signed a contract with Envy Gaming as content creators at the launch of the organization's creator network and ambassador program.. They would later move to Los Angeles, CA, where they would join other content creators such as JustaMinx and CodeMiko in the Envy Content House[23][24][25][26]

On her personal TikTok account where she posts highlights from her twitch streams, TikTok trends and short videos from her daily life, Botez has garnered over 310K followers and 5.9M likes.