Rebecca Selkirk

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

Rebecca Selkirk
CountrySouth Africa
Born (1993-07-06) July 6, 1993
TitleWoman Candidate Master (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] and the 2022 Chess Olympiad, also on board four, scoring 4/9.[2]

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.[3]

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 14,500 followers as of July 2022.[4]

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.[5]

Selkirk also regularly posts blogs on the popular website chess.com under her personal account.[6]

References
  1. "43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women". chess-results.com. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  2. "Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 44th Olympiad Chennai 2022". chess-results.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  3. Selkirk (beccrajoy), Rebecca. "South African Chess in Crisis". Chess.com. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  4. "Twitch". Twitch. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  5. "TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter". www.twitlonger.com. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  6. "WCM Rebecca Selkirk (beccrajoy) - Chess Profile". Chess.com. Retrieved 19 February 2021.


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