#319 – Botez Sisters: Chess, Streaming, and Fame

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4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 163 minutes

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EPISODE LINKS:
BotezLive Twitch: https://twitch.tv/botezlive
BotezLive YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/BotezLive
BotezLive Instagram: https://instagram.com/botezlive
Alexandra’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/missbotez
Andrea’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/itsandreabotez
Alexandra’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexandravbotez
Andrea’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/itsandreabotez
ChessBase: https://chessbase.com/post/the-carlsen-niemann-affair

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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(10:15) – Trip to Italy
(17:16) – Chess tournaments
(22:03) – Streaming
(34:07) – Chess strategies
(54:33) – King’s Indian Defense
(1:12:33) – Chess training
(1:16:59) – Losing
(1:20:18) – Street chess and trash talk
(1:25:07) – Passion and study
(1:43:00) – Loneliness and depression
(2:07:49) – Andrew Tate
(2:16:32) – Greatest chess player of all time
(2:19:07) – Magnus Carlsen
(2:28:17) – Advice for young people
(2:30:10) – Chess boxing
(2:39:04) – Meaning of life
(2:40:09) – Love

Transcript

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Alexander and Andrea Botes, their sisters, professional
0:05.1	chess players, commentators, educators, entertainers, and streamers.
0:10.1	Their channel is called Botes Live, on Twitch and YouTube.
0:14.2	I highly recommend you check it out.
0:16.9	A small side note about the currently ongoing controversy in the chess world, where the
0:21.1	19-year-old grandmaster Hans Neiman beat Magnus Carlson at the sink field cup.
0:27.3	After this, Magnus, for the first time ever, withdrew from the tournament, implying
0:32.0	with a tweet that there may have been cheating or at least something shady going on.
0:37.2	Folks like the grandmaster Hikara Nakamura, fan the flames of cheating accusations, and
0:42.4	the internet made a bunch of proposals on how the cheating could have been done, and arranged
0:48.1	from the ridiculous to the hilarious, often both.
0:53.0	Hans himself came out and said that he has cheated before when he was 12 and 16, on random
0:59.5	online games to jack up his rating.
1:02.7	But he said that he has never cheated in person over the board.
1:07.3	Danny Ranch from chess.com, who I've spoken with, may make a statement in response to
1:12.0	Hans's claims soon.
1:14.9	Folks like Grandmaster Yaka Bouga spoke to his experienced training Hans Neiman, and
1:19.3	has said that his memory and intuition were quite brilliant.
1:24.2	So as you see, there's a lot of perspectives on this.
1:26.8	chess base has a good summary of the saga that I'll link in the description.
1:31.5	Also note that this is so quickly moving that new stuff might come out between me recording
1:36.3	this and publishing the episode.
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