HCA Archivist 
Hampshire have been playing Correspondence chess from the 19th century, and originally these included some 100 board matches against other counties or newspapers. More recently they have played in the Ward Hicks or Sinclair English County championships. I hope to add games as more are made available and if you have any games please do … Read more
The Hampshire Individual Chess Championship has been held since 1930, originally as a small tournament with just the club champions being able to enter. Later this was expanded to any Hampshire player being able to enter and then to a congress with the championship incorporated. Games from the more recent congresses were input by Arthur … 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