S1 E17 B. Jacobson v GothamChess (2017)

IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess)  is a chess content creator on Youtube and Twitch.
His name, 'GothamChess' comes from where he grew up in New York City.
He has earned over 1 million subscribers on Youtube and his videos have received almost 500 million total views since he started in 2018.

Starting chess when he was 6, he played his first tournament at the age of 7 with an initial rating of 948. 
In 2011, he obtained his National Master title. In 2016, FIDE Master, and in 2018, International Master. 
He has since retired from competative chess due to the mental physical and mental stress. 

Rozman has been a partner with Chess.com since 2017 where he has done analysis and commentating work over high level tournaments such as - PogChamps and the 2020 Candidates. 
His vibrant personality, history of scholastic coaching, and in-depth explanations of various openings helped him earn the nickname as also known as the "Internet's Chess Teacher". 
His channels exploded in popularity during the pandemic. He utilized the popularity of the Netflix series - The Queen's Gambit - to create a series on the Queen's Gambit and to play the Beth Harmon bot.
During that time, his channel jumped from 10k subscribers a month to almost 200k a month and his view count jumped from ~1 million to almost 30 million a month.

In 2021, Rozman announced the Levy Rozman Scholarship where he is donating $100,000 to scholastic chess programs to pay for training, tournament fees, and travel expenses in 5 - 15 thousand increments. 
In 2022, he was nominated to The Streamer Awards in the Best Chess Streamer category.

In today's game, we are looking at a game he played in the 2017 Pro Chess League - an International Team Tournament sponsored by chess.com .

Now, if we're ready, let's begin. 

Brandon Jacobson vs Levy Rozman (2017)

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1861152

1. Nf3 f5 2. d3 d6 3. e4 e5 4. Nc3 c5 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Nf6
7. O-O Be7 8. Bg5 O-O 9. exf5 Bxf5 10. Nd2 Qd7 11. Bxf6 Rxf6
12. Nde4 Rh6 13. h4 Rf8 14. Nd5 Bd8 15. Qd2 Bh3 16. Ng5 Bxg5
17. Qxg5 Rg6 18. Qd2 Nd4 19. h5 Bxg2 20. Kxg2 Rh6 21. Rh1 Qf7
22. Ne3 Qf3+ 0-1

https://www.youtube.com/c/GothamChess/featured

https://www.twitch.tv/gothamchess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levy_Rozman

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