In 1997 there was a huge upheaval for the Hampshire Chess Association when the majority of the officers resigning. Not sure of the reason for this but it was obviously something which seemed to come out of the blue and there was no transition process. For this reason Hampshire did not play in the WECU … Read more
The 1999 Hampshire Individual Championship was held at Eastleigh Unity Club, which at the time was my club’s home venue. This was a good building to hold a small tournament, but the management never really understood the conditions which chess needs to be played. As a club we had issues with a band practicing on … Read more
The original post from the old Hampshire Chess website on the 2003 Hampshire Individual has been reproduced for the site. Alongside the Open a U125 tournament was also held.
One of the reasons for adding these posts on the Hampshire Individual Chess Championships is that the historic championships have little information on them. The 1930 tournaments had details in the newspapers, but for the latter ones this was not the case (or they have not been added to the British Newspapers Archive yet). Some … Read more