Robert Gwaze is a Zimbabwean chess

Chess

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 player born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a former student at Prince Edward High School, in Harare. At age 15 he was a Zimbabwe National Chess Champion at both junior and senior levels.

Gwaze won the African Junior Championships in Kenya in 1998, and got the International Master (IM) norm. Probably his greatest success was at the 2002 Chess Olympiad

35th Chess Olympiad

The 35th Chess Olympiad took place from October 25th to November 11th, 2002, in Bled, . In the men's tournament there were 136 teams, and in the women's, 92 teams...

 tournament in Bled

Bled

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, Slovenia when he achieved a rare perfect score, winning all nine of his games on first board for Zimbabwe.

In 2007, he won the African Individual Chess Championship in Windhoek

Windhoek

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, Namibia, earning a spot in the 2007 Chess World Cup

Chess World Cup 2007

The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....

. In this qualification tournament for the 2009 Chess World Championship

World Chess Championship 2009

The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion. The match took place in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 24 to May 13, 2010, with a prize fund of million euros...

 Gwaze was eliminated in the first round by fifth-seed Alexei Shirov

Alexei Shirov

Alexei Dmitrievich Shirov is a Soviet-born Latvian chess grandmaster. He has consistently ranked among the world's top players since the early 1990s, and reached a ranking as high as number four in 1998...

. In 2010 he came first in the Cuca Trophy international tournament in Luanda

Luanda

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, Angola. He took part in the Chess World Cup 2011

Chess World Cup 2011

The Chess World Cup 2011 was a chess 128-player single-elimination tournament, played between 26 August and 21 September 2011, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia...

, but was eliminated in the first round by former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov

Ruslan Ponomariov

Ruslan Olegovich Ponomariov is a Ukrainian chess player and former FIDE World Champion.-Early career:Ponomariov was born in Horlivka in Ukraine. In 1994 he placed third in the World Under-12 Championship at the age of ten. In 1996 he won the European Under-18 Championship at the age of just...

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