County Matches played by Hampshire Chess Association.
Hampshire played their first official county chess match against Sussex on the 21st May 1887. I am attempting to add as many of the Hampshire County Chess Results I have, broken down by year. This friendly match took place in Portsmouth.
John Saunders who runs the excellent Britbase website pointed me in the direction of a County Match between Hampshire and Buckinghamshire in October 1951 where one of the Hampshire players was Sir Robert Stonehouse Broomfield. He was the second “Sir” to play for Hampshire with the other being Sir George Thomas who won the British … Read more
Tony Williams pointed me in the direction of Lex Fridman podcast with Hikaru Nakamura in which he briefly mentions his stepfather Sunil Weeramantry’s time at Southampton University. To save you time, as it is a long interview, this part is around the 2 hours 40 minute mark. Sunil played 12 times for the Hampshire County … Read more
In 1972 Hampshire left the Southern Chess Counties Union (SCCU) and joined the West of England Chess Union (WECU). I thought I would look at our first season in the WECU, for a number of the counties it was a long time since Hampshire had played them, and for Cornwall this would be the first … Read more