Rebecca Selkirk

Rebecca Joy Selkirk (born 1993), is a South African chess player and Woman Candidate Master (WCM, 2019).

Rebecca Selkirk
CountrySouth Africa
Born1993
TitleWoman Candidate Master (WCM) (2019)
Peak rating1819 (October 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, February announced that she should be leaving HashtagChess and start streaming 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
  1. "43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women". chess-results.com. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  2. Selkirk (beccrajoy), Rebecca. "South African Chess in Crisis". Chess.com. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
  3. "Twitch". Twitch. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
  4. "TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter". www.twitlonger.com. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
  5. "WCM Rebecca Selkirk (beccrajoy) - Chess Profile". Chess.com. Retrieved 2021-02-19.
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