Various historic documents e.g. newsletters where Chess activities for Hampshire would have appeared in.
The Hampshire Chess Minutes for the AGM and Council meetings are held in a book and I have used this when writing various articles on the website. On the main this is for the Hampshire Chess Individual Championships, but I have also used for clarification on other activities e.g. which officers were in place during … Read more
In 1944 the Hampshire Hon. Secretary F.L Taylor produced a large document detailing information about the Hampshire Chess Association including numerous activities, such as a summary of the County Matches, the Hampshire Individual Championship, Correspondence matches and Special events. In addition to this a small amount of other information was added at a later date … Read more
The first issue of this magazine (I am not sure if there were any more) from September 1983. The author of this was a player well known in the Portsmouth League, Pat McEvoy.
For many, many years, Jack (JEC) Grant used to write a weekly column titled “CHESS NOTES” for the Portsmouth Evening News / Evening News). The original notes for numbers 1 to 85 (6th September 1976 – 13th November 1978) which were passed to the Newspaper are included in the Hampshire Chess Archives. The structure of … Read more