She is a five-time Canadian girls' national champion and one-time U. Botez has represented Canada at three Women's Chess Olympiads in , , and Alexandra and her younger sister Andrea Botez host the BotezLive Twitch and YouTube channels, which each have over 1 million followers and are one of the largest chess channels on each platform. Botez began playing chess in Canada at age six and won her first girls' national championship at age eight.
She later moved back to the United States where she was born and won U. Girls Nationals at age Botez began streaming chess content online in while she was a student at Stanford University. Her sister Andrea appeared on occasion and later joined full-time to run the channels together in Already one of the most prominent Twitch chess channels with over 50, followers before , the BotezLive channel grew tenfold in size in a span of about a year as part of the chess boom associated with the COVID pandemic, the PogChamps internet celebrity chess tournaments, and Queen's Gambit series on Netflix.
The Botez sisters regularly collaborate with other top chess streamers, such as akaNemsko. They also have collaborated with top chess players such as longtime World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and regularly collaborate with high-profile streamers outside of the chess community, stemming from their involvement in PogChamps. Botez and her sister were formerly members of Envy Gaming and later OpTic Gaming after the organizations merged.
She has served on the Board of Directors of the Susan Polgar Foundation , which aims to promote chess to children in the United States, especially girls. Following her success as a chess streamer, Botez also began playing poker professionally. She has participated in the World Series of Poker as well as celebrity tournaments with other prominent streamers such as xQc and professional poker players such as Phil Hellmuth.
Botez became an ambassador for GGPoker in Botez was born to Romanian immigrant parents. Botez's father introduced her to chess and started training her when she was six.
