25th January: Results from Borders Individual

The Championship section of the Borders Individual Chess Championship is wide open, after Dave Bogle beat Martin Wallace on Tuesday.  No-one in that section has 100%, and no less than 5 players are now in serious contention.

In the Minor section, John Moore won against Alan Armstrong last week - and this week Ian Thompson beat Martin Keen, overturning a 168 Elo point deficit. This will also be a very close section. The current crosstables are below, and the Wallace-Bogle game is on the matches page...

Borders Individual Championship

Here are the latest standings in the Borders Individual championships,

Premier section

Minor section

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.

Index to blog pages...

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

Town Arms upstairs

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 (see the games collection) please contact the editor at .

In the meantime, here is an explanation of the symbols below the board:

Flip the board (to toggle it from White's / Black's point of view)
Forward one move
Back one move
Go to start of game
Go to end of game
Start automoves: the program will play through the game automatically, at 1½ seconds per move
Stop automatic moves