The 1961 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship was held during the 1960/1961 season. The tournament originally started with 16 players with the format being a 7 round Swiss tournament played over the season. For a list of the winners of the Hampshire Individual Championship and links to any articles I have written the table on the … Read more
The 1962 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship was held during the 1961/1962 season. The tournament originally started with 30 players with the format being a 8 round Swiss tournament played over the season. Update August 2024: John Jones round 6 game against TJ De Buriatte was included in the games John supplied to the original HCA … Read more
Going back more than 60 years we look at Hampshire’s 1960/61 SCCU season with a few familiar Hampshire players. How did Hampshire do in their matches against six other counties.
A number of Hampshire player profiles were produced by Cosham Chess player WW Rose and published in the Portsmouth Evening News in 1961. The Hampshire Chess archivist at the time saved these, and I have reproduced them for the website. I think the original plan would have been for these to be published over eight … Read more