Hampshire Chess Individual Championship 1939

Two preliminary sections one of five players and one of six players were undertaken; where the top two players progressed to the final for an all play all. This time the individual results from the preliminaries and the final was detailed in the archives.
WJ Fry won his second title.

The preliminary sections had the following players. This was the first time LE Vine (later Sq-Ldr Vine) who played for Hampshire over 80 times from 1936 to 1972 played in the Hampshire Championship.

Section I

AJ Morrell – Bournemouth
H Grover – Bournemouth
FJH Elwell – Southampton
WA Hooper – Bournemouth
HHR Northover – Southampton
JW Webster – Bournemouth

Section II

LE Vine – Eastleigh
WJ Fry – Old Tauntonians
HA Way – Portsmouth
SL Russell – Broughton
TB Seward – Odiham

For a list of the winners of the Hampshire Individual Championship and links to any articles I have written the table on the Hampshire Individual Championship is the best place to look. In addition, the table on the Hampshire Tournaments will detail these and any other tournament articles I have completed. Both of these are available from the menu at the top of the site as well.

Section I

In section I Bournemouth’s AJ Morrell and H Grover both scored four points although the former completed this with three wins and two draws whilst the latter had four wins and a loss to the other qualifier. Both these players progressed to the final, whilst five time champion Frank Elwell failed to qualify.

Section II

In section II Winchester’s LE Vine scored three points and WJ Fry two and a half points. This was from four games, rather than the five in section I.

Final

In the final WJ Fry won two games and drew one against LE Vine and he won the title he last won in 1933. He went on to win the title again in 1951. WJ Fry was also a prolific winner of the Southampton Chess Club championship, last winning this in 1954

With the start of the Second World War in 1939 this was the last Hampshire Chess Championship until 1948.