Hampshire Chess tournaments.
The Hampshire Individual Championship has been held since 1930 although there have been years with no competition and the structure has changed from the first one which had eight players to the present Congress which includes the Individual Championship. The Congress was split into three sections, the Open (including Hampshire Individual Championship), Major (under 160) … Read more
The Hampshire Congress had three sections, the Open including the Hampshire Individual Championship was covered in the previous post. The other two sections were the Major (under 160 ECF) and the Minor (under 125) Details on the round by round and final scores for both tournaments are detailed below. The tournament was played at the … Read more
Jumping forward from the 1930’s and 1950’s Hampshire Individual Championship the most recent one (Sept 2022) was the one held in 2019. Find out who is the current HCA Individual Champion.
As mentioned in the 1957 post there was an increase in numbers in the 1958 championship with 14 entries compared to the 12 in 1957. Although it looks as if two players withdrew from the competition in the seven months or so the competition ran. The competition was also run over seven rounds rather than … Read more