While interning in China, she founded various web portals, which are now obsolete. After interning at Samsung for three months, she worked at ZhenFund, Beijing for four months. In June 2015, she joined Samsung Electronics in Beijing city, China, as an analyst intern. She has played for the National Canadian Team and became the Canadian National Girls Champion five times. In 2013, she earned the title of Woman FIDE after qualifying at North American Girls Under-18 Championship. At the age of fifteen, she won the US Girls’ National championship. Alexandra has represented Canada in three Chess Olympiads. Her sister, Andrea Botez, live streams games and personal content on the gaming platform ‘Twitch,’ along with Alexandra.Īlexandra Botez holding Canadian Youth Chess Championship trophyĪt the age of ten, she began competing in The Susan Polgar Foundation (SPF) events, and she twice represented Oregon in the prestigious SPF Girls’ Invitational. Her father, Andrei Botez, is a former coach and International Arbiter, a title awarded by FIDE to individuals who are capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches. Her parents, who hail from Romania, fled the communist state and sought political asylum in Canada. In 2017, after graduating from Stanford, she began her journey as a chess streamer. New York Post At Stanford, Alexandra was the first female president of the university’s chess club. Thereafter, she pursued a Bachelor of Arts at Stanford University, California, where she studied international relations with a focus on China. At school, she was a member of the CHS chess team, which was named the overall first-place winner in the varsity division of the Oregon High School Chess Team Association (OSAA) championships. Later, her family moved to Oregon, United States, where she did her schooling at Clackamas High School. Eventually, her father started taking Alexandra to local parks to challenge old-timers. Surprisingly, Alexandra actually managed to beat her mother which made her father realize that she possessed some special skills at chess. So he made a bet that he could teach me to play and that, in only two weeks, I would be able to beat her.”
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