Photographs from the 2022 Hampshire Chess Congress which was held 4th to 6th November kindly supplied by Keven Lamb. Photo above of joint shared 2nd place winner and new (and youngest ever) Hampshire Individual Champion Chandlers Ford Iwan Cave.
Prize Winners
Open
1st (4½ pts) Oliver Gill (Leeds)
2nd= (4 pts) Iwan Cave (Chandlers Ford) and Roland Bezuidenhout (Fareham)
Under-2015 Grading Prize (2½ pts) Paul Northcott (Emsworth), (Len Walters Board)
8 started, 8 finished.
Major
1st (5½ pts) Patrik Baron (Southampton)
2nd (5 pts) David Collyer (So’ton Uni)
3rd (4½ pts) James Schumacher (Bournemouth)
Under-1750 Grading Prize (3½ pts) – Philip Maul (Reading), Joseph Morrison (Surbiton) and Jack Wicken (Fareham)
The Peter Marshall Cup was not awarded as it disappeared during the Covid pandemic….
41 started, 39 finished.
Minor
1st (5½ pts) Tom Philidor (Fareham) winning the Parsons Cup
2nd (5 pts) Oliver Ward (So’ton Uni)
3rd = (4½ pts) Freddie Christou-Moore (Eton College) and Ayan Pradhan (Reading)
Under-1450 Grading Prize = (4 pts) Chris Budden (Fareham), Dave Williams (IoW),
Peter Eales (Chandlers Ford) and Oleksii Pustyntsev (Hampshire)
38 started, 34 finished.
Ladies Prize – was won by Sofia Syed (Fareham)
The John Dunleavy Memorial Prize for the best game in any section will be announced later on the Hampshire website – www.HampshireChess.co.uk
John Wheeler (Sec, Hampshire CA) 7/Nov/2022
Thanks to all the organisers for this tournament, appreciate the work you do, without you there are no tournaments.
Thanks Tom – I will pass on the message to the Hampshire Chess Committee who organise the Congress.