Rebecca Selkirk
| Rebecca Selkirk | |
|---|---|
| Country | South Africa |
| Born | 1993 |
| Title | Woman Candidate Master (WCM) (2019) |
| Peak rating | 1819 (October 2019) |
Rebecca Joy Selkirk (born 1993), is a South African chess player and Woman Candidate Master (WCM, 2019).
Career[]
Selkirk earned the title of Woman Candidate Master in 2019. She represented South Africa in the 2018 Chess Olympiad on board four.[1]
Selkirk qualified to represent South Africa in the 2021 Online Olympiad. However she declined her invitation citing a lack of transparency and incompetent handling of the qualification process.[2]
Streaming and blogging[]
In late January 2020, Selkirk partnered up with South African Woman's Chess Champion, Woman International Master Jesse February to start the HashtagChess channel on the streaming platform Twitch which has amassed over ten thousand followers as of 2021.[3]
On 1 October 2021, Jesse February announced that she would be leaving HashtagChess, to stream on her personal twitch account (Jesse_Feb), leaving Selkirk the sole owner of the HashtagChess channel. The split was amicable with "different career and content creation goals" being cited as the primary reasons.[4]
Selkirk also regularly posts blogs on the popular website chess.com, under her personal account.[5]
References[]
- ^ "43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women". chess-results.com. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Selkirk (beccrajoy), Rebecca. "South African Chess in Crisis". Chess.com. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- ^ "Twitch". Twitch. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
- ^ "TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter". www.twitlonger.com. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ "WCM Rebecca Selkirk (beccrajoy) - Chess Profile". Chess.com. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
External links[]
- Rebecca Selkirk rating card at FIDE
- Rebecca Selkirk player profile and games at Chessgames.com
- Rebecca Selkirk chess games at 365Chess.com
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