Andrea Botez

Andrea Cecilia Cristina Botez, born on April 6, 2002, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is a Canadian-American chess player, Twitch streamer, YouTuber, DJ, boxer, and internet personality known for co-hosting the BotezLive channel with her older sister, Alexandra Botez. Born to Romanian immigrant parents who fled Bucharest before her sister’s birth, Andrea was raised in Vancouver, Canada, and Portland, Oregon, where her father, Andrei Botez, a chess enthusiast and engineer, taught her chess at age six. The fa...