Female chess player earns billions thanks to chess livestream

Alexandra Botez shared, every year the amount of money she earns will never be less than 6 figures.
Chess has become a popular culture sport, especially as the number of people playing chess online is also increasing, thanks in part to the pandemic, as well as the success of the movie "The Queen's Gambit" on the platform. Netflix.

Female chess player Alexandra Botez, from Austin, Texas, USA, is known as a special phenomenon in the chess world, earning 100,000 USD (more than 2.3 billion VND) a year by livestreaming chess matches on Twicth.

Along with her sister Andrea, the 25-year-old creates and streams chess on Twitch - the world's largest game streaming platform.

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The beauty "no joke" of the beautiful female chess player earns billions every year by playing chess. (NYP photo)
Alexandra Botez told her this achievement is a huge success, she is glad that the sport is increasingly having a great influence on popular culture.

Alexandra Botez was passed on by her father at the age of 6, 2 years later she excellently won the first national award in her life.

While at Stanford, Botez played chess on Chess.com, but she didn't notice the social interaction of these mind games. So, in 2016, she decided to livestream on Twitch for fun, suddenly her personal channel quickly became famous and attracted a large number of viewers.

After graduating in 2017, Botez worked for a startup that failed. But since her streaming career went smoothly, the female chess player has ventured into this profession and considers it a serious business.

Those who want to follow Botez on Twitch have to pay $4.99/month. Many people also support and "donate" money directly to her right at the time of the stream. Botez shared, 90% of her income when she started streaming came from her supporters.

Currently, Botez is a female chess player of the world chess federation (FIDE), as she ranks 27,631 out of more than 100,000 players of FIDE. Although Botez is not among the top 20,000 chess players in the world, her income is roughly comparable to that of professional chess players.

FIDE director Emil Sutovsky said: "I'm glad to have someone like Alexandra Botez, it shows that chess can also give us so many opportunities. You don't even have to be a grandmaster, but need to be an educated player. She is good enough to explain the subtleties of chess. I believe Alexandra Botez's future will be very bright."

Thanks to platforms like Twitch, Youtube, it is possible to make a living from chess, there are now more than thousands of people who are also making a living this way.