The Hampshire Congress had three sections, the Open including the Hampshire Individual Championship was covered in the previous post. The other two sections were the Major (under 160 ECF) and the Minor (under 125) Details on the round by round and final scores for both tournaments are detailed below. The tournament was played at the … Read more
Jumping forward from the 1930’s and 1950’s Hampshire Individual Championship the most recent one (Sept 2022) was the one held in 2019. Find out who is the current HCA Individual Champion.
A number of Hampshire player profiles were produced by Cosham Chess player WW Rose and published in the Portsmouth Evening News in 1961. The Hampshire Chess archivist at the time saved these, and I have reproduced them for the website. I think the original plan would have been for these to be published over eight … Read more
As mentioned in the 1957 post there was an increase in numbers in the 1958 championship with 14 entries compared to the 12 in 1957. Although it looks as if two players withdrew from the competition in the seven months or so the competition ran. The competition was also run over seven rounds rather than … Read more