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Islands in the English Channel, northwest of France. Guernsey, sometime associated  with Jersey has participated in 18 Olympiads since 1970. Their best achievement was 59^th in 1970. Gorden Comben is the only player member of the Guersey-Jersey team (at that time) to be awarded a gold medal for the best individual performance at board 6 at the 1984 Olympiad.
In 2010 Guernsey has 5 titled players and 8 rated players.

The national champions were: 1931 Rev T C Laxton, 1932 Mrs B Hollis, 1933 J English, 1934 D Rose, 1935 H Hacklander, 1953 D Rose, 1957 W R Withers, 1958 R T Naftel, 1959-61 W R Withers, 1962 G R Nicole, 1963 G C Mann, 1964 G C Mann, 1965-68 W R Withers, 1969 R T Naftel, 1970-72 E Palmer, 1973 W R Withers, 1974 E Palmer, 1975 D Browning, 1982 D Browning, 1983 E Palmer, 1984 E Laine, 1985-86 P Rowe, 1987 T Knight, 1988-89 P Rowe, 1990-91 M Ozanne, 1992-2000 P Rowe, 2001 P Rowe and T Knight, 2002 T Knight, 2003 P Rowe, 2004 F Hamperl and P Rowe, 2005-2006 P Rowe, 2007 F Hamperl and P Rowe, 2008-2009 P Rowe, 2010 F Hamperl, 2011 F Hamperl.

The team of Guernsey in 2009: Peter Kirby, Andrew Hale, Peter Rowe and Fred Hamperl

In chess, Guernsey is also famous for his International Open which started in 1974.
The last winners were: 2001 Tiger Hillarp-Persson, 2002 Tamaz Gelashvili, 2003 Tiger Hillarp-Persson, 2004 Robert Bellin and 2005 Oleg Korneev, 2006 Leonid Gofshtein, 2007 Tiger Hillarp-Persson, 2008 Tiger Hillarp-Persson, 2009 Tiger Hillarp-Persson, 2010 Nick Pert, 2011 Sarunas Sulskis.

Hodgson and Conquest winners at Guernsey in 1985