IMLevy Rozman

Levy Rozman grew up in Brooklyn and New Jersey and began chess classes at five. He became a national master at sixteen and later an international master in 2018. While studying statistics and quantitative modelling at Baruch College, he began organising chess programmes in local schools. He launched his streaming career in 2018 under the name GothamChess. His instructional videos and commentary reached a much larger audience during the pandemic chess boom. His YouTube channel became the first chess channel to pass a billion views. After stepping away from competitive tournaments in 2022, he returned in 2024 to pursue the grandmaster title.