Hammersmith Chess Club of course! ⚒️

A packed house for our ECF rated Rapid Tournament!

Team is ready, wish us luck!

Rd 3 of the #FIDERapidBlitzTeams saw Hammersmith Chess score an upset against the Berlin Chess Federation. Well done to them! #chess #englishchess

That was a nice move by Ash! We were close in this match, but GM Keti Arakhamia-Grant managed to hold our junior star Kai Hanache to a draw in a RvB endgame It was the last game of Day 2!

In Rd 11, CM Thomas Villiers upset GM Jonathan Parker despite a 400 ELO gap! #chess #englishchess #FIDERapidBlitzTeams

Our marvelous team has won the U2200 category at the FIDE World Rapid Team Championship 2025! We scored 11 match points out of 24, improving on our starting rank by 12 spots. Our Board 8, Aryaman Ganguly, has also won an individual Bronze Medal!

It was great to see many other Hammers playing for various teams!

Six members of our award-winning team at the #FIDERapidBlitzTeams are now giving simuls at the Club!

Someone wasn't watching our games at the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Teams! 😅

Congratulations Hammersmith Chess winning U2200 prize at International Chess Federation World Rapid and Blitz Teams-the team included Marco Gallana, Tom Villiers, Alistair Hill, Ashley Stewart, Kai Hanache, Gaston Franco, Maria-Alexandra Ciocan, Aryaman Ganguly & Gesneria-Codruta Cepoi. Well done, all!

We had the pleasure of hosting World Champion WFM Bodhana Sivanandan last night as she gave a simul to 20 of Hammer's finest women, girls and boys! After 2 and a half hours, she achieved the amazing score of 18.5-1.5! We hope all participants enjoyed the experience

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 Hammersmith Chess team on the prizes we won I hope he's doing well

This is a tremendously interesting article chessbase.in/news/sohum-loh…

Many thanks! 🙌

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?