Journey Of GothamChess

Who is GothamChess?

Levy Rozman, famously known as GothamChess is an American chess International Master, who has become one of the most famous personalities in the world of chess through his youtube channel. He hosts GothamChess, one of the most popular chess channels on Twitch and YouTube.

Levy is a strong chess player and has won multiple city and state tournament chamoionships. He has beaten many strong players, including GM Peter Svindler during one of the chess.com's Titled Tuesday events.

Early Life

Levy was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 5, 1995. He lived in both New York and New Jersey growing up. As a child of Russian immigrants, Levy grew up speaking Russian as his first language and only started learning English in preschool. Levy was interested in chess from a very young age and improved rapidly.

Journey to Internation Master

He began playing chess at the age of 6 as an extracurrucular activity and participated in his first tournament at the age of 7. Levy attained the title of National Master in 2011 through the US Chess Federation, Fide Master in 2016, and International Master in 2018. Levy started as a chess coach in 2014.

Levy's playing style is active and aggresive. In the following game you can see his attacking abilities against a strong Grandmaster. Levy shares his thought process throughout the game in the game annotation below:

Online Career

Levy is a Twitch streamer and YouTuber. Currently he runs the most-subscribed chess channel on YouTube, with over 3 million subscribers. He has the highest chess-focused view count with over a billion views, the first chess channel to accomplish this. Levy works closely with Chess.com and has been part of their streaming partenership since 2017. He has been the commentator of various events of chess.com since the past few years.

Conclusion

GothamChess is one of the best chess content creator and will always be remembered for his greatness, knowledge and fun he has provided us with throughout the years.