Player Profile – Gillian Moore

Gillian Moore Age 23

Gillian Moore – Southampton Chess Club Gillian Moore has been playing chess for Southampton Chess Club since 2001 after some long breaks from chess. Her early years pinnacle was winning the British Ladies championship jointly with Margaret (Peggy) Clarke, 1966 at Sunderland with 8.5 points out of the 11 games played. She is shown here in … Read more

Hampshire 1969/70 SCCU County Champions

The main Trophy in the SCCU County Competitions is the Shannon Trophy, otherwise known as the Championship. According to the SCCU Team Champions list on the SCCU Website Hampshire won the Shannon Trophy just once in 1947/48, but Anthony Fulton in his excellent book “The Southern Counties Chess Union – a retrospective” disputes this as … Read more

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