Articles by Michael Blake

The ECF is relaunching the annual English Seniors Championship with a four day FIDE-rated and ECF graded congress at the St Johns Hotel, Solihull in April 2019. The event will run for four days from […]

The Counties & District Correspondence Chess Championship is our annual team event for the Hampshire Correspondence Chess Team. After a long period of playing in Division One we are this season in the 2nd division […]

The Hampshire Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge Megafinal will take place on Sunday, April 28th, 2019. The tournament venue is Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire. For more information please visit the Hampshire Junior Chess Association at http://www.hjca.org.uk/event/hampshire-ukcc-megafinal/ […]

The “John Dunleavy Memorial Best Game Prize” is awarded for the best game played at the annual Hampshire Chess Congress. The memorial prize was kindly donated by his nephew Stephen. John was academically gifted and […]

The prestigious annual Book of the Year award from the English Chess Federation, has gone to Grandmaster Jan Markos. ‘Under the Surface’ is published by Quality Chess and priced at £23.99. The announcement was made on […]

CHESS FOR SOUTHERN DAILY ECHO DATED SATURDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER 2018 Other than the Robertson Cup fixtures and the Chandlers Ford club derby early Southampton Chess League fixtures are – Tuesday 2nd October 2018 Southampton B […]

The Southampton Chess league fixture list for 2018-19 has been published. The league may be followed at http://www.sotonchessleague.org.uk/ whilst the full list of fixtures is available from this link. Southampton Chess League Fixtures 2018-19 News kindly […]

Southampton F have regained top place in Division 5, while Southampton C have consolidated their position at the top of division 3 despite only drawing with University B. In division 1 University A has won […]