Hampshire Individual Chess Championship 1968
Update July 2024 – Five games from the Portsmouth News “Chess Notes” articles supplied by John Jones in 2004 added.
1967
Hampshire Individual Chess Championship 1967
Update July 2024 – Three games from the Portsmouth Evening News Chess Notes articles have been added. These include two by the Champion.
Southampton Individual Chess Championship 1967/68
Update on the original article – Paul has kindly supplied two articles from the Southern Evening Echo, which he has located. These articles detail the tournament, but also additional information on the ongoing SCL leagues, and other chess activities. As Paul noted it is interesting to see the prominence and detail given to chess on the sports pages.
Southampton vs Bournemouth League Matches
Southampton and Bournemouth have always had a close relationship in chess, and for a long time there was an annual chess match. This continued into at least the 1980’s but has more recently been replaced with a Bournemouth v Poole match. Photo above of the late Les Allen who played for Southampton in some of … Read more