Month: October 2025

 

🎃 Hammer House of Horrors – Final Call!

It’s Halloween, and the blood is still dripping from the board…

The Hammer House of Horrors is coming this Monday 3rd November, hosted by Adam Cranston, and we’re still hungry for your most terrifying games.

Forget ghosts and ghouls — nothing chills the soul like watching a +5 position crumble into defeat.

💀 Deadline: Midnight tonight (Halloween!)

💀 What we need: Your full PGN, with a short note on where you think it all went wrong.

💀 What’s at stake: Eternal shame… and possibly a prize or two for the most haunting games.

Submit your disasters — if you dare.

🩸 Hammer House of Horrors – where nightmares over the board come to life.

Ever lost a game so bad it still haunts you at night?

This is not about the everyday blunder — dropping a queen, missing mate-in-one, the kind of stuff we’ve all done. No, we are after something far more special…

This is for the connoisseurs of catastrophe.

The true artists of self-destruction.

The players who can take a completely winning position… and dismantle it with ten moves of pure, unfiltered incompetence.

For the first time ever, Hammersmith Chess Club presents:

Hammer House of Horrors 🩸

An evening dedicated to your worst games — the shorter, the bloodier, the better. Junior or veteran, 800 ECF or 2400 Elo, it doesn’t matter. This is the prize for those of you who have never won a chess prize in your life.

📅 Event Night: Monday 3rd November, hosted by Adam Cranston

Halloween Prizes for the most haunting games (categories revealed on the night)

👻 How to Enter: Email your full PGN to adam1234321@googlemail.com by Friday 31st October, Halloween. No photos/scans of scoresheets, please. If you can, add a brief note on where you think the rot set in.

Come along for laughs, groans, and a reminder that we are all human.

Hammer doesn’t take itself too seriously — this is your chance to prove it.