Chess Notes 3rd Jan 1987
Saturday 3rd January 1987 I have added the game from the article below. I may do for the other articles, time allowing. Downloadable pdf if picture difficult to read.
Portsmouth Evening News
Hampshire Individual Chess Championship 1957
Update July 2024: I have managed to locate additional information. Originally I thought this was a six round tournament, but in fact there were seven rounds. Although I could not locate the results from the sixth round, as I now have the seventh round the final scores these have been calculated.
I have also added various updates from the Portsmouth Evening News “Chess Notes” articles.
Hampshire Player Profiles – Portsmouth Evening News
A number of Hampshire player profiles were produced by Cosham Chess player WW Rose and published in the Portsmouth Evening News in 1961. The Hampshire Chess archivist at the time saved these, and I have reproduced them for the website. I think the original plan would have been for these to be published over eight … Read more
Hampshire Individual Chess Championship 1958
As mentioned in the 1957 post there was an increase in numbers in the 1958 championship with 14 entries compared to the 12 in 1957. Although it looks as if two players withdrew from the competition in the seven months or so the competition ran. The competition was also run over seven rounds rather than … Read more