Selkirk A  v  Selkirk B

A local match at the Town Arms last night 18th April, with Selkirk A being considered the home team for league purposes.  The result  was 2½-1½ for the B team, with Ian Thompson and Steve Leckie recording wins, and Martin Keen on board 1 securing the draw against Dave Bogle. 

Match results and the Keen-Bogle game...

NHS matches: Revised fixture list

Three fixtures involving Selkirk teams and the NHS have been rescheduled, as follows. Please note that all three fixtures will be played on WEDNESDAYS, at the BGH

Matches page, with revised fixtures...

Download printable (PDF) file of the Selkirk teams' fixtures...

Borders Individual Championship

Here are the latest standings in the Borders Individual championships,

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Archive of home pages

An archive of recent home pages can be found at...

Blogs and archive...

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