Alexandra Botez is a renown female Canadian chess player in the globe, with a world ranking of 24685. Her recent FIDE rating reaching a peak of 2020 as of 2021. She earned her Women FIDE Master title in 2013 and Women Candidate Master title in 2008. Alexandra currently holds impressive FIDE ratings with a blitz rating of 2059 and a classical rating of 1988. For more information on FIDE ratings, see the step-by-step guide on how to get a FIDE rating.
Similar to two of the other of the best Canadian Chess players that publish Chess content like Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton, Alexandra has also built one of the best Chess YouTube channels in addition to being one of the best Chess streamers on both YouTube and Twitch.
Full name: Alexandra Valeria Botez
Title: Woman FIDE Master (2013)
Woman Candidate Master(2008)
Born: September 24th, 1995
Place of birth: Dallas, Texas
Ratings
World Rank: 24,685
Rapid: N/A
Blitz: 2059
Classical(Std): 1988
Profiles
Biography
Alexandra Valeria Botez is a 26-year-old American-Canadian women chess player born in Dallas, Texas. Her hometown is New York City and she identifies as a Christian. Alexandra’s height is 5 foot 4 and she weighs fifty-five kilograms. She has fair complexion, dark brown eyes and brown hair. Valeria’s star sign is a libra. Having been born into a small family, she has a sister whose name is Andrea Valeria and her father is Andrei Botez . However her mother is unknown to the public.
Alexandra studied at a Private US school and then proceeded to Stanford University for higher studies. She pursued a degree in Bachelor of Arts in International relationship.
Botez started playing chess at the age of 6 when her father challenged her to win a chess game against her mother. She has managed to stand for both the United States and Canada at the International level. Alexandra gradually developed into a member of the Romanian Community Centre. Her first win was at the national chess championship in 2004 which was a base for many wins to come. Alexandra carries over 4 youth titles for Canada. With her come back to America, Alexandra was able to secure the United States Girls Nationals at 15 years.
Alexandra is not only a chess player but she is also a top-notch sportscaster in chess. For instance in the 2018, 2019 chess championships, she comprehensively explained the outcome. It was also through her that people learnt of the highly renown chess championship team. In 2021, she had a FIDE rating of 2020 and in blitz she had a rating of 2059. For this achievements, she was named among the top 10 female players in Canada.
During her time at Stanford University she started broadcasting chess through her Twitch account in 2016. Her twitch account blew up and she became famous. In 2020, her small sister Andrea Cecilia Botez paired with her on her twitch account. The duo controls their twitch account and oversee their YouTube channel which has a joint following of over one million. Often, they partnered with different chess fanatics when creating content in their platforms.
In 2017, Alexandra established CrowdAmp, a social media company. Unfortunately, the company stopped working in 2019.
As per April 2020, Botez was selected to be part of the Susan Polgar Foundation’s board of directors which is a non-profit organization committed to bring down gender barriers when it comes to chess. This organization has managed to assist students to get more money in form of chess scholarships and even prizes for the last 18 years.
Alexandra and her sister Andrea have also entered the Envy Gaming which is an esports team located in Texas. Envy gaming plans to expand its Ambassador Network using different gaming digital creators through operating with the two sisters.
The Beginning
Alexandra Botez became a chess enthusiast at a young age of 6 when her father challenged her to defeat her mother in chess. She earned the influence of playing chess through her parents who were immigrants from Romania and residents of Canada . They were successful in nurturing and training her to play chess in a span of two weeks. Her dad kept motivating her and at one point she was able to defeat her mother. Alexandra gained more interest in playing chess and her father made this more fascinating by taking her to the playing field to play with other chess fanatics. However, the players would at times get withdrawn from playing with her due to her young age.
When she attained the 8 years, Botez was privileged to compete in what was her first national tournament. Interestingly, she emerged victorious. At the age 15, Alexandra and her parents relocated to the United States where her passion for chess thrived. While in the states, she competed in the US Girls National tournament for females aged 18 and below. Here she emerged as the champion. On top of that, she managed to win six national tournaments which placed her at a better position of leadership in women’s Chess Federation.
As Alexandra thrived in her chess career stereotyping became the order of the day in the industry. However this did not deter her passion for chess. At Stanford University Botex was privileged to head the university’s chess club. She later enrolled at the livestream platform twitch where she became a chess influencer. Her and her sister Andrea, also a chess player, managed the account and garnered over 61,000 followers. With the help of the pandemic their twitch account gained massive popularity and their followers increased to over 500,000 followers. She is currently doing chess content on YouTube and helping in managing different chess organizations like Susan Polgar Foundation.
Achievements
Alexandra Valeria Botez, since childhood, has continuously portrayed her industrious and triumphant attributes. She is among the top 10 Canadian female chess players. Being a chess player ,she managed to emerge as a Canadian national girls champion five times.
At the young age of 15 she emerged victorious in the United States Girls Nationals. In march 2016 she reached a peak rating of 2092. In April 2021, her FIDE rating was at 2020. Botez earned her Women FIDE Master title in 2013 at the age of 18 years.
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