The Southampton Chess League was first held in 1922/23 (which makes at the time of writing this the centenary season). Southampton Chess Club were the first winners of Division One although numerous other clubs have also triumphed since that time. Details of the various winners of the Southampton Chess Leagues, Cups, Individual Champions are below. … Read more
Updated 3rd April with Tony William’s games and summary. Also brief details on round 7 from Keith.
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