GothamChess Called Out Chess Streamers

Cocktails by QT, a web talk show produced by Twitch streamer QTCinderella, has invited chess player Levy “GothamChess” Rozman and his fiance Lucille Ovich. While there was a lot of information shared about Twitch’s chess streaming scene in general, GothamChess had a problem with the community’s top content creators following a horrific occurrence against him earlier this year.

QTCinderella invited Levy “GothamChess” Rozman and his soon-to-be-wife Lucille Ovich to the Twitch web show Cocktails by QT for the most recent episode. During their time on the show, GothamChess spilled everything about the event earlier this year, when he inadvertently got Indonesian chess player Dewa Kipas banned from chess.com after suspecting and reporting him for cheating.

GothamChess explained how his decision to remove the cheater from the platform sparked a significant backlash from Kipas’ Indonesian fans. They would send hateful messages to his YouTube channel. He said; “I was paying my mod to go through them for hours, like, blocking people off of my channel permanently. We must have blocked like thousands of people and it was still thousands getting through. It was insane. Some of my videos to this day are fifty-fifty, forty-sixty like and dislikes (ratio). It was like, legit – I was watching my career crumble.”

The chess player then went on to express his displeasure with another aspect of the issue that still bothers him saying; “And you know what? Not a single one of these motherf***ing chess creators stood up for me. Not one, (because) they were too afraid of being publicly obliterated also by Indonesia. Not f***ing one.”

Lucy spoke up and explained that Indonesian chess player Irene Kharsima Sukandar had spoken out in favour of GothamChess, which he agreed with. He went on to say, “But she’s not a streamer. Not a single f***ing one of them stood up for me, so f*** them all. But only for that incident, they’re fine otherwise.”

QTCinderella then joked that she was a “famous chess streamer” who “didn’t understand any of it,” adding that if she had the chance, she would have spoken up for him. 

In fact, at the time of the incident, Irene, a two-time Asian women’s chess champion who also holds the title of “International Master,” had just defeated Dewa Kipas 3-0. At the time, the stream that recorded the entire encounter was the most-watched chess stream ever.