The Hampshire U125 Championship was held at Eastleigh College the weekend of 30th October 2004. This year there were 26 entries, which was more than were in the main championship, which showed the growing interest in this tournament.
The original post from the old Hampshire Chess website on the 2004 Hampshire Individual has been reproduced for the site. Alongside the Open a U125 tournament was also held.
The combined Hampshire (11 players) / Dorset (3) / Wiltshire (2) lost 4 – 12 to Devon in the WECU Online Final. We were always a big underdog facing a very strong team, and with two local tournaments at the weekend this made it an even harder challenge.
Dorset can be particularly happy as they scored 2 points from their 3 games with Allan and Tim both winning. Chris McSheehy hade a very nice checkmate and both Rajasekhar and Mike Krawczuk held stronger players to draws.
Many thanks to all the players, as there is a lot of chess being played presently and I appreciate the effort from everyone to play. We obviously did very well to win our semi-final against Gloucestershire and maybe next season we can challenge!
All 21 of the George Kilmister Hampshire Bulletins from 1967 to 1973 have now been added. These are a great resource for the Hampshire Individual Championship, County Matches as well as a Hampshire, Southampton and Portsmouth Leagues.