HCA Chronlogy - Hampshire Chess History

Hampshire 1969/70 SCCU County Champions

22 March 202310 August 2022 by HCA Archivist

The main Trophy in the SCCU County Competitions is the Shannon Trophy, otherwise known as the Championship. According to the SCCU Team Champions list on the SCCU Website Hampshire won the Shannon Trophy just once in 1947/48, but Anthony Fulton in his excellent book “The Southern Counties Chess Union – a retrospective” disputes this as … Read more

Hampshire Chess Association Chronology

18 June 202327 July 2022 by HCA Archivist

The Hampshire Chess Association was formed in 1890 (1) under the instigation of Joseph Blake of Southampton Chess Club. Currently the two main sources of information I have is the SCCU Chronology supplied by SCCU Archivist Anthony Fulton, which includes the potted history of the Hampshire Chess Association as well as the results of the … Read more