Watu Kobese
Chess Player
International master and FIDE trainer who won his first South African Chess Championship in 1998.
He won his first chess tournament when he was 8 years old.
He first competed for South Africa in the Chess Olympiads in 1992.
His father taught him how to play chess when he was 4 years old.
He defeated grandmaster Peter Leko in the 2001 FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament.