Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin played a chess game with Canadian national team player Alexandra Botez in a live stream on Twitch.
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Source: twitch.tv/botezlive.
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Botez holds the title of FIDE Master and is a five-time Canadian women’s champion. She challenged Buterin after a series of podcasts devoted to the Ethereum blockchain.
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@VitalikButerin I’m a chess streamer and a big fan of your work 😄I heard from some people in the crypto space that you are pretty good at chess! It would be a huge honor to play if you ever need a break
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— Alexandra Botez (@alexandravbotez) November 13, 2020
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“I’m a chess streamer and a big fan of your work. I heard from some people that you’re pretty good at chess! It would be a huge honour to play with you,” she wrote.
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Despite Alexandra Botez’s credentials, some users speculated that Vitalik Buterin could hold his own against her:
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Watch Vitalik just secretly have a 2500+ in him he’s just never bothered to play enough rated matches https://t.co/PD34qfzaWb
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— Colin Goltra (@Goltra) November 18, 2020
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“Vitalik is secretly a grandmaster; he has simply never played in rated matches.”
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In 2019, Buterin debuted in “1.58-dimensional chess” on a pyramidal board.
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Prediction markets took bets on the match between Buterin and Botez, dubbing it “king versus queen.” Yieldwars users backed Alexandra Botez, while participants in Omen Prediction Markets were confident of Buterin’s victory.
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As a result, Alexandra Botez won.
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Source: YieldWars.
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Earlier, in 2016, a group of students at the Technical University of Berlin conducted a chess match using software built on the Ethereum blockchain.
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