The 1961 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship was held during the 1960/1961 season. The tournament originally started with 16 players with the format being a 7 round Swiss tournament played over the season. For a list of the winners of the Hampshire Individual Championship and links to any articles I have written the table on the … Read more
Update July 2024: I have managed to locate additional information. Originally I thought this was a six round tournament, but in fact there were seven rounds. Although I could not locate the results from the sixth round, as I now have the seventh round the final scores these have been calculated.
I have also added various updates from the Portsmouth Evening News “Chess Notes” articles.
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
Photographs from the 2024 Southampton Chess League AGM. The 2024 Southampton Chess League AGM was held Wednesday 19 June 2024 at Chandlers Ford Central Club. The Committee attendees were Malcolm Clarke, Fraser McLeod, Matthew Coldwell & Michael Pope. The SCL Club attendees were Stephen Cartridge (Andover), Peter Beldaus, Jamie Chilton, David Long (Basingstoke), Keven Lamb, … Read more