Watu Kobese

{{short description|South African chess player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Use South African English|date=August 2012}} {{Infobox chess player |name = Watu Kobese |image = Kobese Watu.jpg |imagesize = |caption = |country = {{RSA}} |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1973|06|27|df=y}} |birth_place = |title = International Master (1995) |worldchampion = |rating =  |peakrating = 2419 (January 2005) |FideID = 14300141 }}

'''Watu Kobese''' (born 27 June 1973) is a South African chess International Master and FIDE Trainer (2005).

He has won the South African Closed Championship three times, in 1998, 2003 and 2011, and the South African Open twice, in 2004 and 2008. Kobese was awarded by FIDE the title of International Master (IM) in 1995. He played for South Africa in the Chess Olympiads of 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olimpbase.org/players/eo0imayc.html|title=Men's Chess Olympiads: Watu Kobese|publisher=OlimpBase|accessdate=28 July 2012}}</ref>

Kobese is the author of ''Masidlale Uthimba'', the first Xhosa chess book, published in July 2015 and translated from a version he wrote in Zulu nine years before.<ref name="gu_xh">{{cite web | url=http://groundup.org.za/article/first-xhosa-chess-book-launched_3113 | title=First Xhosa chess book launched | publisher=GroundUp | date=10 July 2015 | accessdate=10 July 2015 | author=Mariska Morris}}</ref><ref name="iol_xh">{{cite web | url=http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/first-isixhosa-chess-book-to-build-kings-queens-1.1882081 | title=First isiXhosa chess book to build kings, queens | work=Independent Online | date=8 July 2015 | accessdate=10 July 2015 | author=Sandiso Phaliso}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{Fide}} *{{chessgames player|id=19743}} *[http://www.365chess.com/players/Watu_Kobese Watu Kobese] chess games at 365Chess.com

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kobese, Watu}} Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:South African chess players Category:Chess International Masters Category:Chess Olympiad competitors Category:Place of birth missing (living people)