Hammersmith Chess Club

Jovi scores 18/21 in the simul, and leaves undefeated!

Hope everyone had a good time!

A packed MindSports Centre listening to Jovanka!

Join us tonight for our guest speaker IM/WGM Jovanka Houska!

She will give a lecture and then play a ~20 board simul against some of our members! So excited to have her!

📷: Maria Emelianova

Hammer 1 is currently leading the Middlesex League, but tonight we face the strong West London who might bring some titled players!

We will broadcast the games live, keep an eye out for the link to be published here later

We also have a Division 3 match, and a CLL match!

Four wins in four matches for our London League teams last night!

Well done everybody!

Bughouse! That's the tweet

(How are tweets here called?)

Glad you enjoyed it! Indeed always a fun bunch. I couldn't be there myself last night

Yes feel free to join us! We're doing a Rapid tournament, no need to play all rounds (but please let someone know if you're leaving early!)

Game analysis lecture last night by yours truly

Where have we heard that name before...

Please join us tonight for a 5-round Rapid tournament (10+5) starting at 7:30pm

Meanwhile, our 2nd team in the Middlesex League (Div 2) starts their season, away to Ealing. Good luck!

On Thursday, our Women's team started their London League campaign to defend last year's title, against our newly formed 2nd team, who gave them quite a scare!

The match was quite close and it could have gone either way, hope all the players enjoyed their games

Chess: Kai Hanache, 13, beats three grandmasters at UK blitz qualifier Schoolboy also beat three international masters and made a huge ratings gain, but was edged out in the final round

Leonard Barden on interest in English blitz tournaments growing rapidly, Kai Hanache, 13, beating 3 GMs & congratulations to Eugenia Karas who qualified as top woman www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

We have 20 more League games today plus a few extra rated ones!

Hammersmith faces Hendon in 2 Middlesex League matches, and we have a Juniors vs Adults internal match!

First team will be live here lichess.org/broadcast/ha...

And we're live!

Our first matches of the season are about to start! We have 30 players ready plus a few extra games on the side.

Follow our Hammer 1 v 2 match on Lichess!

lichess.org/broadcast/ha...

Tonight we start our 2025/26 League Season with three internal matches and a total of 30 Hammers! We even have some extra rated games on the side since demand was so high.

The Hammer 1 v 2 match will be Broadcast on Lichess, watch this space for the link around 7pm!

HammerSharks hanging out with the Candidates! 👌

Was a pleasure to attend!

A full review of our Awards Night is out, now including the video analysis of the Game of the Season by @danielkingchess.bsky.social

hammerchess.co.uk/game-of-the-...

Many other players received prizes for their achievements: full list on the front page of our website!

Congrats to Kai Hanache on winning our Game of the Season! And thanks to Danny for his presentation of our best games!

Well done to other prize winners as well, a recap will be on our website soon including the selection of nominated games - keep an eye out!

GM Daniel King is ready to show us the nominations for our Game of the Season award... and has selected a winner!

Who will it be? 🤔

@danielkingchess.bsky.social

We had a lecture about Forks with Gastón 🇦🇷, and a visit from GM Frode Urkedal 🇳🇴 who showed one of his games from the MindSports Swiss tournament

We also displayed our Club of the Year award from the ECF!

Can you solve the final study? Composed by Franz Sackmann (1909)

The ECF awards have been announced! Congratulations to all the winners. Read all about the winners at englishchess.org.uk/ecf-awards-2...

Photos are of Club of the Year - Hammersmith and Small Club of the Year - Bracknell Chess Club (with the Mayor)

Some of our current and future captains are enjoying their annual dinner!

Then it's time to get ready for the new season! ⚒️

I did get 5/5! 🐤

Tonight's Duck Chess tournament, featuring 26 players, is well underway!

Top seed Gastón is playing well and looks on quack to win for a second week running. Can anyone stop him?

I showed a famous game at the club tonight, can you guess which one?

Here is the final position, perhaps missing some pawns!

Happy Bastille Day 😅
#chesspunks

Join us from 7:30pm for the last Handicap Blitz tournament of this season!

Our annual series comes to an end with Thomas Bonn currently leading the cumulative table, will anyone stop him tonight?

I sat next to David Navara at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Teams closing ceremony.

He was very kind, greeting me in my native language simply by having read my name on my badge. And he congratulated me and my @hammerchess.bsky.social team on the prizes we won

I hope he's doing well