Maltese Chess Championship
Encyclopedia
The Maltese Chess Championship is the yearly chess
championship in Malta
which determines the national champion. The first recorded championship was held in 1923 and won by Oscar Serracino-Inglott. Harry Camilleri won the championship a record eighteen times, first in 1965 and last in 2005, at the age of 72.
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
championship in Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...
which determines the national champion. The first recorded championship was held in 1923 and won by Oscar Serracino-Inglott. Harry Camilleri won the championship a record eighteen times, first in 1965 and last in 2005, at the age of 72.
Winners
| # | Year | Winner |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1923 | |
| 2 | 1925 | |
| 3 | 1926 | |
| 4 | 1927 | |
| 5 | 1928 | |
| 6 | 1930 | |
| 7 | 1934 | |
| 8 | 1935 | |
| 9 | 1936 | |
| 10 | 1937 | |
| 11 | 1938 | |
| 12 | 1939 | |
| 13 | 1940 | |
| 14 | 1946 | |
| 15 | 1948 | |
| 16 | 1949 | |
| 17 | 1950 | |
| 18 | 1953 | |
| 19 | 1954 | |
| 20 | 1955 | |
| 21 | 1956 | |
| 22 | 1957 | |
| 23 | 1958 | |
| 24 | 1959 | |
| 25 | 1960 | |
| 26 | 1961 | |
| 27 | 1962 | |
| 28 | 1963 | |
| 29 | 1964 | |
| 30 | 1965 | |
| 31 | 1966 | |
| 32 | 1967 | |
| 33 | 1968 | |
| 34 | 1969 | |
| 35 | 1970 | |
| 36 | 1971 | |
| 37 | 1972 | |
| 38 | 1973 | |
| 39 | 1974 | |
| 40 | 1975 | |
| 41 | 1976 | |
| 42 | 1977 | |
| 43 | 1978 | |
| 44 | 1979 | |
| 45 | 1980 | |
| 46 | 1981 | |
| 47 | 1982 | |
| 48 | 1983 | |
| 49 | 1984 | |
| 50 | 1985 | |
| 51 | 1986 | |
| 52 | 1987 | |
| 53 | 1988 | |
| 54 | 1989 | |
| 55 | 1990 | |
| 56 | 1991 | |
| 57 | 1992 | |
| 58 | 1993 | |
| 59 | 1994 | |
| 60 | 1995 | |
| 61 | 1996 | |
| 62 | 1997 | |
| 63 | 1998 | |
| 64 | 1999 | |
| 65 | 2000 | |
| 66 | 2001 | |
| 67 | 2002 | |
| 68 | 2003 | |
| 69 | 2004 | |
| 70 | 2005 | |
| 71 | 2006 | |
| 72 | 2007 | |
| 73 | 2008 | |
| 74 | 2009 | |
| 75 | 2010 | |
| 76 | 2011 |