All-In Summit: Alexandra Botez takes on the Besties in a 1v4 simultaneous chess match

This talk was recorded live at the All-In Summit 2023 at Royce Hall on UCLA's campus in Los Angeles.
(0:00) Besties welcome Alexandra Botez to All-In Summit ‘23!
(1:35) Rules and ratings
(5:46) Chess match
(17:55) Results
(21:00) Q&A with Alexandra
(22:34) Conversations with fans and the creator economy
(27:30) Expanding distribution
(30:11) Live events
(31:04) Poker
(32:15) Growing up with chess
(36:10) Chess scandals
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Intro Music Credit:
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Intro Video Credit:
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/ botezlive

[@JoelNJohnson]

"It's easier to turn attention into capital than it is to turn capital into attention." That's the perfect answer to Chamath's question. Very smart person here.

[@nbultman_art]

These consecutive talks are keeping the Summit alive in my mind

[@davidarakelian2052]

This was very entertaining 😂 Especially, Chamath's reactions 😂

[@sarthakaiyappa]

Chamath during the game is like the grinch - iconic! Y'all are a vibe and goals

[@serzya304]

Favorite line from Alexandra “ it is much easier to turn attention into capital than to turn capital into attention” 25:17

[@CoIdestMoments]

This year speakers are a great selection of what's going on in the digital world

[@maliciousinferno]

Finally Alex!! This was awesome.

[@PhonkEcho]

Hikaru would have taken on the entire conference attendees and their extended families

[@GodofDisco]

hikaru is an ego maniac why he doesn't get invitations love how humble most chess players are

[@doug3691]

If the chess clocks had worked properly she would have won all four games, perhaps, but it was quite fun this way, and she was a terrific sport about it. (She could have gone to focussing on just 2 boards after a certain point, as the others had flagged.) All things considered, and excellent presentation and a very enjoyable segment.

[@ig5012]

A crossover I did not expect

[@matt-vb5rf]

First Half: Jason demonstrates on how not to pick up a girl 😅

[@nellyfrittata8319]

Those pants got me in check... respectfully.

[@highestranked]

Jcal might be weird

[@kevenwang9285]

Love the banter

[@GlentonMe]

This might be the best part of the whole conference 🤣

[@arielzwolinski]

The game and follow up talk were great! The part I loved the most was when it was mentioned she’s so good, because she played games with her father. Great story!

[@ET_Videos]

Love this!

[@kagisomonareng]

Im at 7:37 and this is probably one of my favorite segments from the conference! 😂

[@joeingram1]

Alex is a legend

[@MainActor]

The banters are amazing 😂 also I like it when Chamath doesn’t know what to do and gets salty with Sacks 😂

[@sheilatorio6811]

The Besties are the best!!!!

[@mattschwab5143]

Lmaoo this is so amazing!

[@bbsara0146]

this girl is very well spoken and smart wow

[@tommygarcia3469]

You and your sis,helping put chess back on the map,u2 are badazzz💯💯💯

[@masi2975]

This was a good one.

[@brandonna606]

the Chess was hilarious! and VERY interesting LOL!!

[@Matt-gf4gd]

If competitive chess has this much trash talking I might actually be really into it and had no idea.

[@pythagoran]

Oh yeah, watch some street chess! The Botez sisters even have some good ones but so much good stuff out there

[@garrydimasa1964]

Well, this is such an unexpected crossover.

[@maliciousinferno]

Finally!

[@yas4435]

Fun ❤

[@naveenkp8305]

Alex should have made this a 10 mins simul....no idea why she made it 5 mins.....That would have given her enough time to play a good move for all and defeat everyone in 6-8 mins

[@lonamisa_]

i ❤ this

[@judecowie7007]

Well spoken and well dressed :)

[@Yetified_Mayhem]

I sense a little chub growing in the science corner

[@alchemist_one]

The Davids outperformed!

[@pepecebolla69]

Was there an illegal move or something? Why did Sacks' board get stuck? Also, JCal's time kept getting an extra minute whenever it was close to 0, wtf

[@pepecebolla69]

at 12:40 it added ~40 seconds, to get to 78 seconds at 13:58 JCal "flagged", but then at 14:14 his clock jumped back to 78 seconds again -_- at 16:45 the clock jumped again from ~16 seconds to 78 seconds... (to be fair it jumps back down to 14 at 16:59, but still..) at 17:16 it jumps again from ~1 to ~14 (that's not 2 seconds) then it does keep adding a small amount of seconds as moves are played... until it reaches 0 and resets back to 78 seconds at 17:51 lol definitely some nasty bug or the board got all messed up because of the random pieces JCal added/removed

[@pepecebolla69]

btw I reviewed Sacks' board and there wasn't an illegal move, but I think the board missed one of Alexandra's moves at some point or something; it seemed to be running 1 move behind, and then I guess it gave up when it saw what appeared to be an illegal move, but it was all legal moves in the real life board (obviously)

[@pepecebolla69]

FWIW, there are other blatant time changes: at 10:34, Sacks goes from 3m07s to 3m44s, and Alex's time in that board loses 34 seconds LOL at 15:22, Sacks goes from 12 seconds to 2m31s at 15:53, Sacks goes from 2m13s to 1m17s I call shenanigans!!

[@josy26]

Great a

[@MRCroosingTootH]

The match was hilarious with Chamath 😂😂

[@NotQuiteFirst]

14:35 the comic book superhero pose she strikes

[@GeneralZhang]

Sacks’ clock on the screen was completely bugged (randomly adding/removing >5s) but it sounded like the clock itself was fine from what they were saying. Too bad they didn’t make it 10m and cut down on the opening banter (like Jcal’s cringe “lose to a girl” comment). I think she underestimated how difficult it’d be to focus on stage with the jokes and shenanigans.

[@briancrowley1287]

This is crazy my life is coming to the singularity

[@handyman4everyman]

Same... if they got Gothamchess and Jacob collier on the podcast then singularity complete

[@chandtailor]

With these were longer

[@sriramlamsal]

Love the game I invented that one. Chausar.

[@toulasantha]

Wow this girl….❤

[@mystickago]

i love this

[@christinehill1038]

He's not a boomer, he's Gen X!

[@googooboyy]

We finally get to see the Botez gambit in real life. Jcal was baited.

[@ilovepawgs6913]

Alex is such a goddess

[@EvanEvansE3]

One of these with Magnus Carlsen would be amazing! 🙏

[@jesse2667]

Friedberg: Oh no, my queen, distraction. 4 the ⌛️ 🏁 win

[@JezebelIsHongry]

Pulgar sister had functional mri. Learned at young age. Part of facial recognition hijacked in brain and replaced with chess portions.

[@tdreamgmail]

Sauce?

[@Hawxxfan]

this was hilarious

[@gladyskravitz1000]

this does not work with clocks. or they have to give you a lot more time.

[@DarkmanX47]

Men of culture, I see you.

[@vasanthchandrasekaran3218]

Loved the guest ! Lot of cringe moments from Jcal ..very painful to watch! 🤦‍♂️

[@super_hero2]

she plays 4 while being entertained on stage

[@peterpan69]

they were all HCL players

[@sltho]

Friedberg lolol

[@nanobots3336]

Adorable la chibola

[@Navs006]

I was actually under the impression everyone's gonna lose

[@VARMOT123]

Should've brought a super gm like hikaru or fabi . She is ranked like 26000

[@yoyoitsme]

shoutout to Alexandra

[@aarontanaka8844]

Jcal chiding fberg that he’s going to “lose to a girl” is childish, disrespectful to Alex, to girls, and makes him look like a goofy boomer.. pull it together jcal!!

[@dave_sakamoto]

Magnus is the GOAT

[@tdreamgmail]

Wow, she's even smarter than I thought, especially on the business side.

[@TheIslandRiders]

5 mins in. laughing soo much

[@cuigthallann4091]

Seems like you could program a LLM like chat GPT for chess. Next move in chess like prediting next word in a sentence.

[@dukeofdenver]

Chat GPT can actually play chess though. I've tried it

[@cuigthallann4091]

@@dukeofdenver How about a LLM trained specifically on the corpus of all chess match data?

[@PhonkEcho]

Levi lost an opportunity to feel like a grandmaster

[@Warley.Araujo]

What a Great Video hahaaha

[@MikeLit939]

so she lost 3 out of 4 games and the boards all glitched out and couldnt see the positions. great

[@bbsara0146]

sacks is based, he won outright. I can only imagine peter thiel would beat her at chess too

[@joythought]

I doubt Sachs would win more than occasionally if she wasn't playing 3 other games simultaneously. Theil is said to be much stronger than Sachs.

[@zacharyeversole]

Need to take the wife here. She’s always watching the scary movies. I’ll be chilling with the clown by the taco truck 🤡 🌮 😂

[@voltaire229]

what is she wearing lol

[@OGRE_HATES_NERDS]

body on 1000

[@mooktakim]

It's all about the trash talk

[@calvinlow2]

Sacks seems to be sandbagging his rating. 1600 is below a very good high school chess player.

[@keenenwalker8708]

J-Cal a bit sensy poo

[@enteyedos]

GOD ,chees bug!

[@harshvijay7219]

what if peter thiel was there. he would have surely beaten her

[@DEINSURGO]

Jcal threw his game to make her look good. Like legit didn’t make 2 or 3 moves and acted like he did so she could take an his pieces. I know people like to pick on Jcal, but he clearly he’s playing dumb here to make the guest look good.

[@joesmith8462]

Wat he’s the whole thing and really the main takeaway is that If she just lost like a stone mayybe 1.5 stone, 10 kg then she would have such a cracking body. Beautiful hair too, just a little work on diet and she’s a knockout!

[@PurposefulPorpoise]

Alexandra = Russia. Chamath = Ukraine. Sacks = USA

[@felixal]

team hans

[@PhonkEcho]

Hikaru would just Botez Gambit before the first move and win at move 10

[@teamspeak9374]

hikaru would beat all 4 of them while blindfolded

[@swapanjain892]

You missed the point of the talk.

[@teamspeak9374]

@@swapanjain892 point deez

[@Maromasice]

She talked in very disrespectful way to jcal

[@gledaoci]

Wth is she wearing? Big blunder

[@ChatGPT-xm7xs]

Has Chamath been extradicted from Italy yet? What excrement did he leave for European investors?

[@value_investing]

Jcal=Trump @ 23:58😂

[@audience2]

That was a disaster for the champion. She should have slaughtered them.

[@juancarlosrivera5689]

God alexandra has such an amazing body 👀🔥

[@steadymobbin.]

Elon

[@fjack5143]

Elon

[@rhezarkhani]

Dump truck

[@birhon]

Imagine cutting gene therapy short to talk about chess. Hot chicks are destroying the world and I love it.

[@CarlosHfam]

Andrea can finally find her sugar daddy amongst that audience.

[@progamer1196]

No idea why they are getting random youtubers.. anyways I will skip this "talk"

[@CoIdestMoments]

She's not a random youtuber she is an extremely famous content creator and makes millions of dollars mostly in the Chess category which is pretty hard in itself... She has some interesting things to say, that type of success comes with skill and preparation.

[@matt-vb5rf]

Lol what , you watch the 2nd half ?? Extremes well spoken and intelligent

[@hanszecevic9128]

bunch of crude individuals, is there any need to swear

[@TheJoezaidan]

This is a much Lower quality guest than usual, Disappointing, she couldn’t even manage to win the games despite it being the only thing she does all day

[@donovanfisher322]

yikes....

[@Vaibhavmaurya606]

I don't like botez