The Hampshire Chess Association held a new competition for 2024/25. One of our aims is to grow chess in Hampshire and specifically increase the number of female players. With this in mind we introduced the HCA Women’s Individual Championship. The format of the competition was a double round all play all at players’ clubs or … Read more
Hampshire played five over the board county matches this season, winning three and losing two. However, this was a better performance than it initially looked, as they won Montague-Jones Cup and only lost to Dorset, where Hampshire fielded an understrength team, and Middlesex in the final of the Shannon Cup. As can be seen from … Read more
Arthur Brameld has kindly supplied his chess games (over 1200!) for the website. One of my plans is to preserve Hampshire Chess games for the future and this will certainly help. Arthur played competitively since the early 1960’s, and at his peak was extremely strong, playing board one for the county at least 16 times. … Read more
This page features a collections of games by Hampshire chess players and competitions. I would like to add more of these to the website, to showcase chess games by Hampshire chess players. This is not just for the best players in Hampshire (although great to have these), but for any player who has been a … Read more
Emsworth Chess club was formed in 1976 and their best results were from 2009 to 2015 when they won the top division four times.
Hampshire met a strong Yorkshire team in the National stages QF of the U1650 section. It was always going to be a tough task and in the end Yorkshire won by 6 points. Gregory Barratt, David Long and Ojas Dhall were the Hampshire winners.
Hampshire had won the Montague-Jones Cup the previous year, beating Devon in the final. This year these two teams met in the semi-final and Devon came out on top. Devon would go on to win the competition, and the full list of winners are on the SCCU website. Before this match, Hampshire played and beat … Read more
Wilf Pratten was a very strong Portsmouth Chess player and we are indebted to Roger L Paige and Arthur Brameld for supplying his chess games. These are also included on Britbase along with a lot more information. Wilf H Pratten – Chess Games Taken from the Portsmouth Evening News, 08 August 1961 FAMOUS HAMPSHIRE CHESS … Read more
Hampshire have been playing County chess matches since 1887 moving between the SCCU, WECU and currently playing in the Chiltern League. Games from these matches are included on this page, although this is only a drop in the ocean for the games played. I hope to add games as more are made available and if … Read more