GothamChess, aka Levy Rozman, is an International Master (IM) of chess from New York City, who during the pandemic lockdown of
2020-21, even more so than Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, almost singlehandedly got an entire new generation of young
people interested in the game of chess, a game that most
people had previously thought boring. He did this by being witty,
funny, and excitedly recapping games of chess like a charismatic sports announcer covering a tense basketball game, and in doing so, got richer than even the world's top chess players, because there isn't much money in actually playing the game. He is known for sacrificing THE ROOOOOOOOK, and for calling
bad chess players "bozos".
Some
old-school, humorless chess-playing dorks think GothamChess is
annoying, but he's laughing all the way to the
fucking bank.
