24th February: Kelso v Selkirk "A" rescheduled
Please note that Kelso v Selkirk A, originally scheduled for 11 Apr 2023, will now be played on 28 Mar 2023.21st February: Lightning tournament
Tuesday night saw a good old-fashioned lightning tournament. No, not one of the 5 minute blitz tournaments we see all the time. This was 10-second a move on the buzzer, and very enjoyable it was too.The results did not reflect grading, with Selkirk No 3 John Moore taking the title comfortably with 4½/5, and Dave Bogle ending up sixth on 1/5. John thus takes "Nick's Trophy" a trophy in memory of Nick Duffell which will be competed for in tournaments within the Selkirk Club.
This was the final crosstable:
Borders Individual Championship
Here are the latest standings in the Borders Individual championships,Premier section
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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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Flip the board (to toggle it from White's / Black's point of view) |
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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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Stop automatic moves |