WECU - Hampshire Chess History

WECU Online County Chess Matches 2023

18 February 202420 February 2023 by HCA Archivist

The combined Hampshire (11 players) / Dorset (3) / Wiltshire (2) lost 4 – 12 to Devon in the WECU Online Final. We were always a big underdog facing a very strong team, and with two local tournaments at the weekend this made it an even harder challenge.

Dorset can be particularly happy as they scored 2 points from their 3 games with Allan and Tim both winning. Chris McSheehy hade a very nice checkmate and both Rajasekhar and Mike Krawczuk held stronger players to draws.

Many thanks to all the players, as there is a lot of chess being played presently and I appreciate the effort from everyone to play. We obviously did very well to win our semi-final against Gloucestershire and maybe next season we can challenge!

Hampshire County Chess Season 1991 / 92

22 March 202312 November 2022 by HCA Archivist

Very surprising that this was over 30 years ago! But Hampshire reached the Open National Chess Finals in the 1991/92 season where they met Staffordshire. The Hampshire County chess team this season was probably as strong as they have ever been with numerous ECF 200 (2200) graded players in the team for matches.

Hampshire County Chess

12 June 202328 October 2022 by HCA Archivist

Hampshire have played in the Southern Counties Chess Union (SCCU), West of England Chess Union (WECU) and the Chiltern League. These competitions have various sections and I have attempted to detail these on this page. A number of sources have been used for this information, which are included in the Acknowledgement and Sources. Results for … Read more

WECU Online County Chess Matches 2021

21 February 20238 September 2022 by HCA Archivist

With the pandemic position in 2021 no West of England County chess competition was held but for the first time an online variety was held. In the past there have been friendly telephone matches between counties and in the 1970’s with the petrol rationing there were discussions in the WECU for County matches to also to be held by telephone.