10th January: a great game
Ian Thompson (Selkirk A) and Cameron Carter (Selkirk B) went into their game on Tuesday night with all guns blazing - and what a game it turned out to be. Both players had their chances to win and the game was full of interest, but in the end it was Cameron who came through with an endgame mating attack. You can play through it on the matches page...Selkirk B v Selkirk A; Updated Borders Individual
Here are the latest standings in the Borders Individual championships, with all second round matches included. The digit before the decimal point indicates the round, and the digits after the point indicate the result:Last night Tuesday 10th Jan, Selkirk B were "at home" to Selkirk A in the Town Arms, and the result was a 3-1 win for Selkirk A. There were two especially fascinating games - Cameron Carter v Ian Thompson on Board 3, and Alan Miles v Kevin Poulton on Board 4 - and we hope to have the scores of these games soon. The full results (and the Bogle v Keen and Thompson v Carter games) can be found on the matches page...
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Grades for 2022-23
The grades for 2022-23 are now out, with the usual mix of winners and losers. Logan Symons (NHS) has come up by 98 points to 1008 and - again in the NHS team - Stasys Gimbutis has put on another 97 points to be graded 1653 this season. In the Selkirk club, Dave Bogle is the greatest improver with a 70 point leap to 1613.But by a huge distance, the greatest jump is by Kelso's Ross Blackford; Ross has increased his grade by a spectacular 381 points to become the Borders number 1 on 1827. Yes, 1446 to 1827! Very impressive from 16-year-old Ross.
New blog feature
We're redesigning the blog pages, and the first change is the addition of pages dedicated to players in the Borders League. We kick off the new series with pages on Stasys Gimbutis and Keith Aitchison, and more will follow shortly. In the meantime, if you would like a page about yourself, then please send very brief biographical details and two of your best wins.
The Town Arms
The home of Selkirk Chess Club
Selkirk Chess Club meet every Tuesday at 7pm in the Town Arms, just off Selkirk Square. We do not meet in the bar itself but in the upstairs function room, and are there most Tuesdays unless we are playing away matches (a list of matches is on this page...).Special feature on the Town Arms, Selkirk...
The Selkirk club
The upstairs room of the Town Arms
As you can see, we occupy a fairly spacious room above the main bar of the Town Arms. It is a friendly club, and we always welcome new chessplayers.
Photo is by Kevin Poulton.
Try our games page
Selkirkchess.co.uk uses a javascript game viewer originally developed by Chesstempo, and the games should display OK on all modern browsers.
The original code has been adjusted to suit this website, so if you have any problems with using the viewer
In the meantime, here is an explanation of the symbols below the board:
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Forward one move |
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Back one move |
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Go to start of game |
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Go to end of game |
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Start automoves: the program will play through the game automatically, at 1½ seconds per move |
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