Return of the Sledgehammer and Rockhammer Tournaments for 2022/23
Hammersmith Chess Club will continue offering year-long ECF-graded internal tournaments to its members.
We would like those tournaments to be as flexible as possible. Therefore members are still encouraged to contact other club members and organise their own OTB games. This will encourage members to meet each other and play serious rated games at the time and place of their convenience. With more than 200 players in the club, you could play a very large number of rated games during the year both in standard and rapidplay. We have a specially dedicated Whatsapp group for those tournaments where we publish the results and standings regularly and you are encouraged to come forward on this channel to contact other players and organise your games.
Additionally, the club secretariat will continue organising Sledgehammer and Rockhammer special club nights, and in those special events players will be paired to play a game or two during the night. This year the first special Rockhammer night will be organised on Monday 19th September, and we hope many players will participate.
This year we will have two different Cups:
- The Sledgehammer Cup for Standard Play
- The Rockhammer Cup for Rapid Play
Those tournaments are open to all Hammersmith Chess Club members. All you need to do is to contact your fellow club members, agree on an appointment for an OTB game, and then submit the game result via this link to the game submission form.
Please note that
- This year those tournaments will be OTB only.
- All OTB games are ECF-graded, online games will not count towards the tournament this year.
- Players must be ECF-registered to play OTB games.
- Game results will only be accepted via the provided game submission form, results by email will not be accepted.
- This year we will not have a cup dedicated to 960 Fischer Random Chess, but there will still be events organised around this format from time to time.
For complete information and rules, please have a look at the Hammer Tournaments Documentation
Good luck with the 2022/23 Hammer Tournaments Season!
The Internal Tournaments Team