Hampshire Tournaments

The original post from the old Hampshire Chess website on the 2003 Hampshire Individual has been reproduced for the site. Alongside the Open a U125 tournament was also held.

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

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

The 1950 Hampshire Individual Championship was played between late 1949 to mid 1950 and this would bring Wilf Pratten his third title. With little information to go on it is the HCA Minutes which has provided the majority of the details for this article. If additional information is located I will update the post. Picture … Read more