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On 1 October 2021, February announced that she would be leaving
HashtagChess, making Selkirk the sole owner of the channel, to start streaming on her personal Twitch account (Jesse_Feb). The split was amicable with "different career and content creation goals" being cited as the primary reasons.
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February participated in the 2022 South
African Women's Chess Championship and finished in second place with a score of 4.5/6, half a point behind Chloe Badenhorst who was crowned the new South African Women's Champion
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In 2015, she was crowned U18 girls champion at the South Africa junior closed chess championships, and was selected to play for the national team for the World Youth Chess
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February streamed and conducted interviews with the players during the 2024 Cape Town Chess
Masters, an event described as having "raised the standard of chess broadcasting in South Africa".
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and scored 0.5/11 for a performance rating of 1976. She went on to win the Nelson
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February qualified to represent South Africa in the
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