In 1987 the WECU qualifier to the British Chess Championship was held in Southampton, details from the Portsmouth Evening News and the HCA archives were used to produce the article on the website. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/wecu-1987-brit…

Tony Corkett won the 1st of his 10 Hampshire Individual Championships in 1989. The championship was held over 2 weekends at IBM in Cosham. Article on the championship including 3 games is now available. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-indi…

In the 1988 Hampshire Individual Championship Keith Gregory won his 5th title with an impressive 7 points from 8 games. This was played over 2 weekends. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-indi…

Only just Hampshire History, but a new Quickplay Championship was held in September 2025 and small report with video. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-quic…

The known Hampshire junior chess champions have been added to the site. These join the list of the senior titles, which date back to 1930. The first junior title was thought to have been from the 1967/68 season. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-indi…

In the 1937/38 chess season Hampshire managed to win the Montague Jones Cup after losing in the final the previous two years. They also fielded one existing and one future British Chess Champion in some of their matches. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-coun…

Photographs from the HCA Congress held last weekend are available on the website. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/2025-hampshire…

Slowly adding the Chess Note articles from the Portsmouth News as they are made available. Articles from 1990 are the most recent, joining the 1988/89 ones added recently. These cover Hampshire Chess activities, concentrating on the Portsmouth area. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/chess-notes/

Very small post on the 1990 Hampshire Individual added, this is pretty much based on two of the weekly chess note articles in the Portsmouth Evening News. Tony Corkett won his 2nd title. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-indi…

In the 1938/39 county chess season Hants had just three county matches. This was the last season of Match Captain Francis Elwell, who despite being 80 still scored 2 points from 3 games in the County matches, and won the Southampton Club championship. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-coun…

The Juniors take home all the mince pies in the IOW Chessmas Blitz. Final table and results here with a few selected games to flick through. iowchess.com/post/isle-of-w… #Chess

The Portsmouth News "Chess Notes" articles for the following year are now on the website. There are still missing years, but hopefully these will be added when available. After 1997 these seemed to drop off, but I will add any which are relevant. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/chess-notes/

Picking up on the HCA County season following the 2nd World War (and other Hampshire chess activities). The current post looks at the 1945/46 season where Hampshire played two county matches. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-coun…

Picking up on Hampshire chess clubs again with details added on the Portsmouth chess club, which was formed in 1889 and members include Sir George Thomas, GM Peter Wells. They have currently won the PDCL Div 1 title 18 times, which is the record. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/portsmouth-che…

The 1992 Hampshire Individual Chess Championship was won by Southampton Chess Club’s Stephen Bell. Very little information is available, although I will update if additional details are supplied. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-indi…

The West of England Chess Championship has been running since 1946. I have been sent 5 bulletins for some of the 1960's congresses, which have been scanned and added to the website. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/west-of-englan…

Hampshire only played the two county matches in the 1946/47 season, and also lost Bournemouth chess club from the association, due to non payment of fees. Details on the HCA season on the website. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/hampshire-coun…

Malcolm Clarke has long been associated with Hants and SCL chess. His career started in the 1970’s, when he played for Eastleigh, but he also played in London for several years. Recently he has been captaining and secretary of Chandler’s Ford chess club. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/malcolm-clarke/

When I ran the HCA website I had a games page, where players sent me their games. I felt bad that these are no longer available, as the HCA website changed webmasters. I am starting to add some and the first game is a 2008 one by FM Moses Kawuma. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/games-kawuma-m…

After badgering Tony for several years he has sent me his Correspondence Chess games for the website, these include several which were published in BCM. Tony had great success in the time before computers became dominant in correspondence chess. hampshirechesshistory.co.uk/correspondence…