Overview
- BASILISK announced on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 that Levy Rozman, known as GothamChess, has signed as the organization’s Head of Chess in a non-playing, executive-style role.
- Rozman’s duties will focus on creating content, recruiting players, and developing chess–STEM projects rather than competing for the team.
- He joins a BASILISK roster that already includes top grandmasters Anish Giri and Vincent Keymer, giving the organization both elite competitive talent and a large creator platform.
- BASILISK markets itself as “science’s esports team” and lists partnerships with scientific institutions such as The Planetary Society and Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, which Rozman plans to tap for cross-discipline collaborations.
- The signing expands BASILISK’s mainstream reach by pairing Rozman’s roughly eight million YouTube subscribers with the team’s competitive ambitions and could accelerate youth programs, content activations, and the push for trophies like the Esports World Cup.