Steve and Suzan Dunleavy held their annual barbeque for the chess club and friends. The planned heavy rain did not appear and a very pleasant evening was held. This included Karaoke later in the evening! Picture above L-R, Steve Dunleavy, Graham Stuart, Peter Przybycin, Peter’s wife, Kevin Westbrook, neighbours and friends, Chris Button and Rob … Read more
This post will fall under the new Blog category (under the Home button, or just select from Categories), where this will cover non Hampshire Chess History items. This article is on my chess season (June 2024 to July 2025), which has consisted of one tournament, Southampton chess league, county and internal club tournaments. I also … Read more
Since 2022 we have had an annual pre-season friendly match against Fareham. Match report on the 2024 match. Update Aug 11 2024: Patrick Pavey has supplied his game where he saved half a point tempting his opponent with a piece which could not be taken. This allowed a perpetual check.
Chandler’s Ford Chess Club was created in the 2015/2016 Chess season, when Eastleigh Railway chess club moved venues. In addition this was really an amalgamation of the original Eastleigh Unity, Eastleigh British Rail and Stoke Social chess clubs. Eastleigh Unity prior to this was Stoneham Park via Cricketers Arms (which was when I joined). Safe … Read more