Introducing New ChessKid Streamers:Hashtaghype!

How much do you know about South Africa?

Starting on Saturday, March 13th at 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern/6pm CET/6pm South Africa Standard Time, ChessKids will get a chance to challenge two of South Africa’s top female chess players live on stream. You can also watch the show to learn more about chess and to ask any questions you have about the southernmost country in Africa!

About the show

HashtagHype will be a regular show hosted by WIM Jesse February or WCM Rebecca Selkirk on their channel HashtagChess (twitch.tv/hashtagchess). Shows will last for 90 minutes, and you can check the ChessKid calendar for upcoming shows.

Make sure you send a friend request to their ChessKid accounts (HashtagJesse and HashtagRebecca) so you can play against them on stream!

WIM Jesse February and WCM Rebecca Selkirk are all smiles for their show!

About Jesse and Rebecca

Jesse is two-time South African women’s chess champion, and an experienced coach and Olympiad player. Rebecca is one of the top-rated South African female players, and is also a past Olympiad team member.

Jesse and Rebecca stream chess and variety content regularly on their Twitch channel, HashtagChess, which they started to bring awareness to African and South African chess. They both enjoy working with children, and they’re excited to play against ChessKids from all over the world during their new HashtagHype show!

ChessKid remains committed to helping children in Africa succeed. In addition to partnering with the Chess in Slums project in Nigeria, we are also working with the chess federations in Rwanda and Tanzania to help their youth. FunMasterMike also once brought a ChessKid booth to South Africa!

If you beat Jesse or Rebecca on stream, they may just let you hang out with their pet cheetah like FunMasterMike did!