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The Hampshire Chess Association announced a new competition for 2024/2025 – the HCA Women’s Individual Chess Championship.
The event will be played as a double round-robin and the venues will be players’ clubs or homes. The event will take place between September 2024 and May 2025. The participants are Gillian Moore (Southampton Chess Club), Helen Archer-Lock (Southampton University Chess Club), Rose Saunders (Chandler’s Ford Chess Club), Megan Birch (Basingstoke Chess Club) and Rosamund Hale (Southampton Chess Club).
“We are hoping that this competition will help in bringing more female players into the game“, reads Hampshire Chess Association press release on the new tournament.