Watu Kobese

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Watu Kobese, 2005
Association GermanyGermany Germany (until 1995) South Africa (since 1995)
South AfricaSouth Africa 
Born June 27, 1973
Soweto , South Africa
title International champion (1995)
Current  Elo rating 2324 (January 2020)
Best Elo rating 2419 (January 2005)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Watu Kobese (born June 27, 1973 in Soweto ) is a South African chess master .

Kobese learned chess from his father when he was four. When he was eight he played his first tournament. In 1989 he received a scholarship and went to the chess high school in Altensteig for three and a half years , where he trained with the grandmasters Luděk Pachman , Miroslav Filip and Lothar Vogt . In Germany he took part twice in the Württemberg championship and played his first international tournaments. During his time in Germany he was registered with FIDE for the German Chess Federation . In 1995 he was awarded the title of International Master by FIDE . After Kobese was nominated for the South African team at the 1992 Chess Olympiad , but remained without a commitment, he took part in nine Chess Olympiads for South Africa between 1994 and 2014 . With the South African national team, Kobese also took part in the chess competition of the Africa Games 2007 and achieved second place. Kobese took part in several FIDE co-world championships, but was eliminated in the first round. At the 2001 World Cup in Moscow , he scored 1-1 in the regular games against Péter Lékó (+1 = 0 −1), the Hungarian world class player only prevailed in the fast games. Kobese is a multiple winner of the championship of South Africa (divided in 1998 and 2003, 1.5 points ahead in 2007) and regularly comes out on top at the continental championships in Africa: At the African championships in 1998, held in Cairo , he came third in 2001 (also in Cairo) he finished second behind the Moroccan grandmaster Hicham Hamdouchi . With his 5th place at the African Championships in Lusaka in 2005 , he qualified for the 2005 World Chess Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk , where he was eliminated in the first round against Boris Gelfand .

In October 2015 he is in fourth place in the South African Elo ranking.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Watu Kobese's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Watu Kobeses results at pan-African games on olimpbase.org (English)
personal data
SURNAME Kobese, Watu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African chess player
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Soweto