SCCU Open Champion
The first clearly identified SCCU Championship tournament was held at Salisbury (then, of course, in the Southern Counties) in September 1898.
However an SCCU tournament in 1896 at Clifton, Bristol, and a second in 1897 at Southampton, both won by HE Atkins, seem to have been for the Union (Amateur) Championship in all but name. They were preceded, in August 1895, by an Amateur tournament at Hastings alongside the International. But this event was under the auspices of the SCCU and the British Chess Association jointly and, unlike the later events, was not restricted to SCCU players.
After the 1898 event we have no information until 1937. We have Ladies Champions only for 1959-63, but suspect there will have been others
Season |
Open Champion |
Ladies Champion |
Location |
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2021-22 |
David Henry Maycock Bates |
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Southend Easter Congress |
2020-21 |
None |
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2019-20 |
Martin Taylor (Rainham), Partha Mulay (Wanstead) |
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Thanet Congress |
2018-19 |
Richard Bates (Hackney), Adam C Taylor (Battersea), Ben Ogunshola (Camberley) |
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Weald Congress, West Sussex |
2017-18 |
Richard Bates |
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2016-17 |
Nick Pert, Richard Bates |
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2015-16 |
Richard Bates |
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2014-15 |
Keith Arkell, Jonathan Hawkins |
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2013-14 |
Chris Ward |
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2012-13 |
Gawain Jones |
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2011-12 |
Paul Georghiou |
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2010-11 |
Danny Gormally, David Howell |
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2009-10 |
Graeme Buckley |
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2008-09 |
Lorin D'Costa |
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2007-08 |
Andrew P Lewis |
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2006-07 |
Simon K Williams |
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2005-06 |
Marcus Osborne |
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2004-05 |
Tim Hebbes, Dave Ledger, Steve Ledger, Peter Poobalasingam |
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2003-04 |
Peter Wells |
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2002-03 |
Danny Gormally |
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2001-02 |
Simon Knott, Simon Williams |
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2000-01 |
Colin Crouch, Jeff Goldberg |
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1999-00 |
Mark Ferguson |
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1998-99 |
Andrew Webster |
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1997-98 |
J Hodgson |
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1996-97 |
M Adams |
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1995-96 |
SJB Knott |
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1994-95 |
JM Emms |
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1993-94 |
MD Sadler |
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1992-93 |
JC Moore |
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1991-92 |
APH Kinsman |
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1990-91 |
PG Large |
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1989-90 |
MD Sadler |
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1988-89 |
J Cavendish |
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1987-88 |
PG Large |
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1986-87 |
APH Kinsman |
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1985-86 |
DJ King |
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1984-85 |
DH Cummings |
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1983-84 |
DJ King |
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1982-83 |
BA Jacobs |
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1981-82 |
IR Watson |
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1980-81 |
JC Pigott |
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1979-80 |
DH Cummings, PG Large |
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1978-79 |
CM Cooley |
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1977-78 |
KG Coates |
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1976-77 |
C Cubitt, H MacPherson |
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1975-76 |
NE Povah |
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1974-75 |
NE Povah |
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1973-74 |
GH Bennett |
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1972-73 |
GH Bennett |
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1971-72 |
D Sherman |
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1970-71 |
JP Somerville, RR Smith |
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1969-70 |
D Sherman |
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1968-69 |
KM Oliff |
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1967-68 |
WR Hartston, AJ Whiteley |
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1966-67 |
RD Keene |
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1965-66 |
DB Pritchard |
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1964-65 |
RG Wade |
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1963-64 |
H Golombek |
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1962-63 |
RA Fuller |
D Dobson |
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1961-62 |
D Sherman |
K Northcroft, S Mann, P van der Bergh |
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1960-61 |
PS Milner-Barry |
V Horsnell |
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1959-60 |
DE Lloyd |
VB Grant |
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1958-59 |
DB Pritchard |
J Barker |
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1957-58 |
RG Wade |
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1956-57 |
RG Wade |
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1955-56 |
H Golombek |
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1954-55 |
PH Clarke |
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1953-54 |
LW Barden |
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1952-53 |
S Fazekas |
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1951-52 |
S Fazekas |
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1950-51 |
AH Trott |
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1949-50 |
J Penrose |
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1948-49 |
JM Aitken |
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1947-48 |
WH Pratten |
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1946-47 |
WH Pratten |
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1936-37 |
F Parr |
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1898-99 |
JH Blake, W Ward |
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