Rebecca Joy Selkirk (born 1993), is a South African chess player and
Woman Candidate Master.
Career
Selkirk earned the title of Woman Candidate Master in 2019.
She represented South Africa in the
2018 Chess Olympiad on board four,
and the
2022 Chess Olympiad
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, also on board four, scoring 4/9.
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.
Streaming and blogging
In late January 2020, Selkirk partnered up with South African Woman's Chess Champion,
Woman International Master
FIDE titles are awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE (''Fédération Internationale des Échecs'') for outstanding performance. The highest such title is Grandmaster (GM). Titles generally require a combination of Elo rating and ...
Jesse February, to start the HashtagChess channel on the streaming platform
Twitch
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, which has amassed over 14,500 followers as of July 2022.
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.
Selkirk also regularly posts blogs on the popular website
chess.com
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under her personal account.
References
External links
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Rebecca Selkirkchess games at 365Chess.com
1993 births
Living people
South African chess players
South African female chess players
Chess Olympiad competitors
21st-century South African women
21st-century South African people
Chess Woman Candidate Masters
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