British Chess Championships
Starting 1866.
'The first series was for a championship cup, provided by the British Chess Association, to become the property of anyone winning it twice in succession. This is exactly what happened on the fourth contest in 1872.' - Ken Whyld, Chess - The Records
Year Venue Winner
1866 London de Vere, Cecil
1868 London Blackburne, J.H.
1870 London Wisker, John
1872 London Wisker, John
'The next series, begun in 1886, was confined to amateurs and was, particularly in the early years, unrepresentative.' - Whyld
Year Venue Winner
[omitted]
'The present series is linked to the British Chess Federation.' - Whyld
Year Venue Winner
1904 Hastings Napier, William
1905 Southport Atkins, Henry
1906 Shrewsbury Atkins, Henry
1907 London Atkins, Henry
1908 Tunbridge Wells Atkins, Henry
1909 Scarborough Atkins, Henry
1910 Oxford Atkins, Henry
1911 Glasgow Atkins, Henry
1912 Richmond Griffith, Richard
1913 Cheltenham Yates, Frederick
1914 Chester Yates, Frederick
1920 Edinburgh Scott, Roland
1921 Malvern Yates, Frederick
1923 Southsea Thomas, Sir George
1924 Southport Atkins, Henry
1925 Stratford on Avon Atkins, Henry
1926 Edinburgh Yates, Frederick
1928 Tenby Yates, Frederick
1929 Ramsgate Sultan Khan, Mir
1931 Worcester Yates, Frederick
1932 London Sultan Khan, Mir
1933 Hastings Sultan Khan, Mir
1934 Chester Thomas, Sir George
1935 Yarmouth Winter, William
1936 Bournemouth Winter, William
1937 Blackpool Fairhurst, William
1938 Brighton Alexander, C.H.O'D.
1946 Nottingham Combe, Robert
1947 Harrogate Golombek, Harry
1948 London Broadbent, Reginald
1949 Felixstowe Golombek, Harry
1950 Buxton Broadbent, Reginald
1951 Swansea Klein, Ernst
1952 Chester Wade, Robert
1953 Hastings Yanofsky, D. Abraham
1954 Nottingham Barden, Leonard; Phillips, Alan
1955 Aberystwyth Golombek, Harry
1956 Blackpool Alexander, C.H.O'D.
1957 Plymouth Fazekas, Dr. Stefan
1958 Leamington Penrose, Jonathan
1959 York Penrose, Jonathan
1960 Leicester Penrose, Jonathan
1961 Aberystwyth Penrose, Jonathan
1962 Whitby Penrose, Jonathan
1963 Bath Penrose, Jonathan
1964 Whitby Haygarth, Michael
1965 Hastings Lee, Peter
1966 Sunderland Penrose, Jonathan
1967 Oxford Penrose, Jonathan
1968 Bristol Penrose, Jonathan
1969 Rhyl Penrose, Jonathan
1970 Coventry Wade, Robert
1971 Blackpool Keene, Raymond
1972 Brighton Eley, Brian
1973 Eastbourne Hartston, William
1974 Clacton Botterill, George
1975 Morecambe Hartston, William
1976 Portsmouth Mestel, Jonathan
1977 Brighton Botterill, George
1978 Ayr Speelman, Jonathan
1979 Chester Bellin, Robert
1980 Brighton Nunn, Dr. John
1981 Morecambe Littlewood, Paul
1982 Torquay Miles, Anthony
1983 Southport Mestel, Jonathan
1984 Brighton Short, Nigel
1985 Edinburgh Speelman, Jonathan
1986 Southampton Speelman, Jonathan
1987 Swansea Short, Nigel
1988 Blackpool Mestel, Jonathan
1989 Plymouth Adams, Michael
1990 Eastbourne Plaskett, James
1991 Eastbourne Hodgson, Julian
1992 Plymouth Hodgson, Julian
1993 Dundee Hennigan, Michael
1994 Norwich Watson, William
1995 Swansea Sadler, Matthew
1996 Nottingham Ward, Chris
1997 Hove Adams, Michael; Sadler, Matthew
1998 Torquay Short, Nigel
1999 Scarborough Hodgson, Julian
2000 Street Hodgson, Julian
2001 Scarborough Gallagher, Joseph
2002 Torquay Ramesh, Ramachandran
2003 Edinburgh Kunte, Abhijit
2004 Scarborough Rowson, Jonathan
2005 Isle of Man Rowson, Jonathan
2006 Swansea Rowson, Jonathan
2007 Great Yarmouth Aagaard, Jacob
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