Alongside the Hampshire Individual Chess Open and Major a competitive Minor tournament was also taking place. This was won by Tom Philidor who only took up chess a couple of years ago – a huge achievement.
Although the Hampshire Individual Chess Championship was the main event, the Major had the largest amount of entries (41) and was hotly contested with a number of experienced players as well as a number who had improved greatly in the last few years.
One of the reasons for adding these posts on the Hampshire Individual Chess Championships is that the historic championships have little information on them. The 1930 tournaments had details in the newspapers, but for the latter ones this was not the case (or they have not been added to the British Newspapers Archive yet). Some … Read more
Photographs from the 2022 Hampshire Chess Congress which was held 4th to 6th November kindly supplied by Keven Lamb. Photo above of joint shared 2nd place winner and new (and youngest ever) Hampshire Individual Champion Chandlers Ford Iwan Cave. Prize Winners Open1st (4½ pts) Oliver Gill (Leeds) 2nd= (4 pts) Iwan Cave (Chandlers Ford) and … Read more