Hampshire were back to the three county chess matches again this season, playing Surrey, Sussex in the SCCU SE division, and the normal annual friendly against Wiltshire. For the record of Hampshire County matches and links to any articles I have written the table on the Hampshire County Chess Matches page will detail these. The Hampshire County Chess … Read more
I can only find the two Hampshire county chess matches this season, the normal one against Sussex either was not played, or not recorded in the newspapers. From the data sent to me from Anthony Fullton and my fruitless search I think it was the former. But there were two matches played, the SE Division … Read more
Hampshire played three county chess matches this season, meeting the same opponents as 1894 / 95, with two matches in the SCCU Shannon South Eastern Division and a friendly one against Wiltshire. A noticeable change this season was made in the SCCU following issues with the number of games not being completed in the time … Read more
The Hampshire Chess Championship was held at Eastleigh College between 4th and 6th November 2016. It was split into 3 sections with in total 44 players participating. The minor had by far the largest participation with 29 players. The picture above shows joint first place winner Shreyas Royal who was 7 at the time of … Read more