HELP EVAN AND HIS SIBLINGS TO MAKE THEIR NEXT MOVE

Three children, two countries, one December

Evan de Wet is eight years old. He plays chess for South Africa.

He learned the game at Gordon's Bay Primary School in the Western Cape. From there it went quickly: school chess, then the Western Cape Top Schools competition, then the SA Championships, and in 2026 he pulled on the national kit at the FIDE World Cadets Cup in Batumi, Georgia, playing in the Under-8 section against the best children in the world. He played board 2 in the C section Cape Town senior league, as an eight-year-old, against grown adults who have been playing longer than he has been alive.

That Batumi trip happened because ordinary people backed him. Not a federation budget, not a corporate sponsor. People who read his story and gave what they could. We are asking again, and this time it is for all three of them.

What they have been selected for

Chess South Africa has confirmed that Evan qualified, through his performance at the Chess South Africa Open, to represent South Africa at the Africa...