The 1966 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship (for the 1965 / 66 season) was held at Eastleigh the weekend of the 10th to 12th December 1965, generally in accordance with a resolution passed at the 1965 Annual General Meeting; the format was a Swiss Tournament with 14 participants. The tournament had a number of the leading … Read more
A belated report in the 2005 Hampshire Individual Championship which was won by Tony Corkett. Alongside the Open a U125 tournament was also held where Ken Retallack came out on top. This will be included in a later article.
The 1973 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship was held over two weekends, the 27th/28th January and 3rd/4th February 1973 at Southampton University. Gerald Bennett won his first title, ahead of a number of strong players. Photograph above of Gerald Bennett in 1974, sourced from Britbase. For a list of the winners of the Hampshire Individual Championship … Read more
The Hampshire Chess Championship was held at Eastleigh College between 4th and 6th November 2016. It was split into 3 sections with in total 44 players participating. The minor had by far the largest participation with 29 players. The picture above shows joint first place winner Shreyas Royal who was 7 at the time of … Read more