Hampshire Chess Association
Pat McEvoy of Victory Chess Club has informed me of the death of Terry Hollington and has kindly supplied the following:
Terry Hollington died on Monday 22 October and his funeral is at 2:45 on Friday 26th October at Portchester Crematorium.
Of course Terry has not been active in chess for over 15 years, but he was a very active junior organiser in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1980s, Terry and myself put out the strongest county junior chess teams this country has ever seen, winning all the major national championships. On one occasion we took a team of 20 players to a national finals in Liverpool. When we got there, we discovered that it was for teams of 10. Never mind, they let us enter 2 teams! Never been known before, but what the heck! Of the 13 teams competing our teams came 1st and 3rd. I shall never forget it.
Terry was also the founder of the Portsmouth Chess Congress, an event that I continue to run in the spirit he would have wished, and which recently celebrated its 25th birthday. This year's event (February 8-10 2002) will be an 'Elite' event on the Grand Prix circuit, a fact that gave Terry some pleasure in his final weeks.