Hikaru denies claims he sent Andrea Botez a cease & desist over cardboard cutout of him Twitch: BotezLiveTop Chess streamer Hikaru Nakamura has denied Andrea Botez\u2019s claims that he sent her a cease and desist following a cardboard cutout of him appearing in her stream. Hikaru, a Chess grandmaster and the category\u2019s biggest streamer on Twitch before his move over to rival platform Kick, has never been one to shy away from or hide his feuds with others, and the Botez sisters, Andrea and Alexandra, know that all too well. In 2021, he criticized Andrea for jokes she made at the Chess World Championship, and Alex has claimed that he has been frustrated with the sisters for streaming chess in the \u2018Just Chatting\u2019 category, dating all the way back to 2020. Earlier in 2023, he claimed that the pair would \u201cnever win anything in Chess,\u201d something they didn\u2019t take kindly to and put him on blast for, but it has been somewhat quiet on the Botez vs Hikaru front since. Hikaru cease & desist Andrea Botez? While talking with fellow Chess streamer AnnaCramling, Andrea suggested that her feud with Hikaru may have finally come to a head as he sent her a cease and desist notice. \u201cThe cutout is done and we shall never speak about who once was here,\u201d Andrea said in response to Anna\u2019s questioning of the cutout. She continued: \u201cI\u2019ll tell you half of it\u2026 I\u2019ll tell you as much as I\u2019m allowed. All I can say is, Anna, we got a cease and desist. That\u2019s all that will be said.\u201d While she didn\u2019t spell it out specifically, Andrea implied that Hikaru sent her a cease & desist after a cutout of him started appearing in the background of her streams. Hikaru responds to cease & desist accusation Several hours later, Hikaru discussed the allegations on stream, denying the fact that he sent a cease and desist notice to the Botez sister. \u201cI mean, yeah, it\u2019s just absolutely absurd,\u201d he said, saying that she must have thought it was funny after seeing other situations, such as the possibility of Logan Paul sending Dillon Danis a cease and desist. \u201cI literally didn\u2019t even talk to them. That\u2019s how ridiculous it is. I haven\u2019t even spoken to them. I\u2019ve been dealing with other legal stuff.\u201d Andrea apologizes to Hikaru He then showed a Direct Message sent to him by Andrea, in which she claimed she didn\u2019t know what a cease and desist is, apologizing for making the implication. \u201cHi Hikaru, I just saw that there was a clip on LSF about the cardboard cutout \u2013 I genuinely apologize, I was being, sarcastic \/ joking, around and thought a cease & desist is just a term meaning being asked to take something down \u2013 I\u2019m going to clear it up first thing in the morning on stream and it\u2019s completely my bad. I\u2019m sorry again and I know LSF is full of haters, I will be more cautious in the future and will try to avoid putting you in such situations.\u201d It appears as though Andrea may have stumbled on what she was saying a little when discussing the Hikaru situation with Anna, and promptly reached out to him to both apologize and confirm that she will rectify the situation live on stream. Andrea claims Hikaru had someone to take down the cutout After Hikaru responded to Andrea\u2019s claims, the Botez sisters jointly claimed that Hikaru did indeed reach out to them but not directly. Rather, Hikaru allegedly had someone from chess.com, a site they both work for, contact her to take down the cutout. \u201cWell if he [showed] the DMs and cared about the truth, then he shouldn\u2019t have said he didn\u2019t reach out to us \u2019cause that\u2019s sneaky. He didn\u2019t reach out directly but he had someone reach out to us for him. So if he cares about the truth he should be fair about it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hikaru denies claims he sent Andrea Botez a cease & desist over cardboard cutout of him Twitch: BotezLiveTop Chess streamer Hikaru Nakamura has denied Andrea Botez\u2019s claims that he sent her a cease and desist following a cardboard cutout of him appearing in her stream. Hikaru, a Chess grandmaster and the category\u2019s biggest streamer on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}