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526:. Transitioning from his role as a chess teacher, Rozman embraced full-time streaming. By October 2020, his Twitch channel amassed over 100,000 followers, a significant increase from the just over 17,800 followers in early 2020. In January 2021, he ranked as the third-largest chess streamer on Twitch with 200,000 followers. Simultaneously, his YouTube channel saw substantial growth, reaching 379,000 subscribers.
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October 14, 2021, Rozman announced the Levy Rozman Scholarship Fund, through which he is donating $ 100,000 to elementary-, middle-, and high-school chess programs. ChessKid, a subsidiary of Chess.com, administers the fund, and schools can be awarded between $ 5,000 and $ 15,000 to pay for the
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International Master (IM) in 2018. In 2018, he reached his peak US Chess rating of 2520 and a FIDE rating of 2421. In July 2022, following a disappointing performance at the New York Summer Invitational tournament, Rozman announced his retirement from "competitive chess events" due to
541:, resulting in Rozman facing harassment on social media. To cope with the situation, Rozman opted for privacy by making his social media accounts private and took a brief hiatus from streaming. Dewa_Kipas later was unable to play at a high level in a series of live matches against Indonesian IM
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September 17, 2024, he has over 5.4 million subscribers and more than 2.8 billion views on YouTube.
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