The following lists competitions for Chess in South Africa.
South Africa first participated in the 1958 Olympiad in Munich.
The team stopped participating in international chess in 1974 due to the sports boycott as a result of the country's apartheid policies, returning to play at the 1992 Olympiad after the end of apartheid.
[31] South Africa has one grandmaster; Kenny Solomon.
Solomon earned the title by winning the African Chess Championship in December 2014.