Robert Gwaze (born 1982) is a Zimbabwean chess player.

At age 15, he was a Zimbabwe National Chess Champion at both junior and senior levels.

[1] Gwaze won the 1998 African Junior Championship in Nairobi, Kenya, which earned him the International Master (IM) title.

[1] Probably his greatest success was at the 2002 Chess Olympiad tournament in Bled, Slovenia when he achieved a rare perfect score, winning all nine of his games on first board for Zimbabwe, an achievement that only he and Alexander Alekhine did.

[5] In this qualification tournament for the 2010 Chess World Championship Gwaze was eliminated in the first round by fifth-seed Alexei Shirov.