Alexandra and Andrea Botez are best known as chess players and chess content creators. Their YouTube channel, which has 1.81 million followers, is described as “two sisters who like chess and chaos.” Their BotezLive Twitch channel has 1.3 million followers. Its description is “Welcome to BotezLive, a chess show hosted by two sisters…. Both grew up playing chess competitively and represented Team Canada in many international events.”
DreamHack Dallas
DreamHack Dallas attracted more than 60,000 attendees in 2025. The Botez sisters appeared at two Meet & Greets.
I waited in line for 50 minutes to meet Alexandra and Andrea Botez. The wait paid off, as I now have a photo of me with the famous sisters.
Defeating an International Master
In 2024, Woman FIDE Master Alexandra Botez defeated International Master Jan Karsten. Here is how she won while playing Black.
Music, Poker, or Chess?
In April of 2025, Rolling Stone published an interview with Alexandra and Andrea. Both stated that they would not be playing competitive chess in 2025. Instead, Andrea said, “We’re really focused on branching out our YouTube and going more outside of the chess niche.” Alexandra added, “we have so many higher priority projects that are better for chess and for chess content than us just playing.”
They also have interests outside of chess. Andrea is a “chess player by day and a DJ by night.” Alexandra plays poker. Both chess and poker take “an incredible amount of skill,” Alexandra said two years ago after winning her first poker tournament. As of June 2025, one site lists her poker winnings in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
