Hampshire played their last match of the Chiltern League season yesterday, at home against a much depleted Buckinghamshire team who could only raise 12 players. Hampshire won by 12.5-3.5, including 4 default wins (matches to be played over at least 16 boards).
The Hampshire team welcomed two new players, Paul Janota and Stephen O’Toole, who both won their games, as did Daniel Shek, Fraser McLeod, Matthew Deacon and Jamie Chilton.
It has taken me a while, but article on the 2023 HCA Individual Chess Championship, including games, photos and my thoughts has been completed. Please do provide your thoughts on the tournament as well! I hope to produce the Major and Minor in the future.
Photographs from the 2023 Hampshire Chess Congress which was held 3rd to 4th November 2023. Photographs were taken by Graham Stuart, Martin Simons and Peter Eales. We were missing our normal photographer Keven Lamb and I certainly apologise for my attempts! Previous years are available from the Gallery page. Young players shine at the Hampshire … Read more
The combined Hampshire (11 players) / Dorset (3) / Wiltshire (2) lost 4 – 12 to Devon in the WECU Online Final. We were always a big underdog facing a very strong team, and with two local tournaments at the weekend this made it an even harder challenge.
Dorset can be particularly happy as they scored 2 points from their 3 games with Allan and Tim both winning. Chris McSheehy hade a very nice checkmate and both Rajasekhar and Mike Krawczuk held stronger players to draws.
Many thanks to all the players, as there is a lot of chess being played presently and I appreciate the effort from everyone to play. We obviously did very well to win our semi-final against Gloucestershire and maybe next season we can challenge!