Photographs from the 2023 Hampshire Chess Congress which was held 3rd to 4th November 2023. Photographs were taken by Graham Stuart, Martin Simons and Peter Eales. We were missing our normal photographer Keven Lamb and I certainly apologise for my attempts! Previous years are available from the Gallery page. Young players shine at the Hampshire … 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
The Hampshire U125 Championship was held at Eastleigh College the weekend of 30th October 2004. This year there were 26 entries, which was more than were in the main championship, which showed the growing interest in this tournament.
Alongside the Hampshire Individual Chess Open and Major a competitive Minor tournament was also taking place. This was won by Tom Philidor who only took up chess a couple of years ago – a huge achievement.