One of the reasons for adding these posts on the Hampshire Individual Chess Championships is that the historic championships have little information on them. The 1930 tournaments had details in the newspapers, but for the latter ones this was not the case (or they have not been added to the British Newspapers Archive yet). Some … Read more
From the Westward Ho! newsletter from January 1988 the obituary of George William Kilmister MBE was published which I have repeated below. George Kilmister produced the Hampshire Bulletin, Westward Ho! and SCCU Bulletins as well as being an Chess official for Hampshire and Dorset. He played for Hampshire approx. 20 times from 1960 to 1972.
The Hampshire Chess Minutes for the AGM and Council meetings are held in a book and I have used this when writing various articles on the website. On the main this is for the Hampshire Chess Individual Championships, but I have also used for clarification on other activities e.g. which officers were in place during … Read more
The 1951 Hampshire Individual Championship was played between late 1950 to mid 1951 and this would bring WJ Fry his fourth and last title. His first was pre war in 1933 and his other two wins were in 1939 and 1949 (the one where there is no inscription on the Silver Rook). Again I have … Read more