The Hampshire Chess Association held a new competition for 2024/25. One of our aims is to grow chess in Hampshire and specifically increase the number of female players. With this in mind we introduced the HCA Women’s Individual Championship. The format of the competition was a double round all play all at players’ clubs or … Read more
Update April 2025: With the sad passing of Clive Cubitt, his fellow Southampton University player Tony Stebbings has kindly supplied his memories of Clive, and this tournament (including two new games). The article has been updated with the information from Tony’s emails.
The 2014 Hampshire Chess Championship was held at Eastleigh College between 7th and 9th November 2014. It was split into 3 sections with in total 63 players participating. The Major section saw Matthew Wilson win ahead of a number of Hampshire players. Picture above of the playing hall from 2013, as no photos were taken … Read more
The 2014 Hampshire Chess Championship was held at Eastleigh College between 7th and 9th November 2014. It was split into 3 sections with in total 63 players participating. The Major section saw Matthew Wilson win ahead of a number of Hampshire players. Picture above of the playing hall from 2013, as no photos were taken … Read more