Chessington Computer Centre was an organisation based in

Chessington Chessington is an area in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames within Greater London, which was historically part of Surrey. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census it had a population of 18,973. The Bonesgate Stream, a tributary of ...

that provided administration services to the

UK Government His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government or otherwise UK Government, is the central government, central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

. Originally part of central government, it became an

executive agency An executive agency is a part of a government department that is treated as managerially and budgetarily separate, to carry out some part of the executive functions of the United Kingdom government, Scottish Government, Welsh Government or No ...

and trading fund of the

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on 1 April 1993. In July 1996 it was sold to a management and employee buy-out team for £12.5 million. It was acquired by

Automatic Data Processing Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) is an American provider of human resources management software and services, headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey. History In 1949, Henry Taub founded Automatic Payrolls, Inc. as a manual payroll processin ...

in September 1998, but was later closed in June 2005. The chess player Michael Basman worked at the Chessington Computer Centre as a computer programmer.

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