The 1969 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship (for the 1968 / 69 season) was held at Southampton University the two middle weekends of October 1968. There were five rounds each weekend, and the tournament was dominated by the young Seth Saverymuttu, who only dropped two draws from his ten games. Contents For a list of the … Read more
The 1970 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship (for the 1969 / 70 season) was held over two weekends in October 1969 at Southampton University. 24 players battled over 10 rounds, with Seth Saverymuttu achieving an excellent eight and half points, to finish half a point ahead of Marshall Thompson. The order I am posting these articles … Read more
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
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