29 Oct 2023: Lightning tournament
This Tuesday 31st Oct sees the annual Selkirk lightning tournament. It's not too serious.
There is a ten-second buzzer, and you move ON THE BUZZER (neither before nor after the buzzer).
It's go-as-you-please, which mean you can join, take a rest, and rejoin whenever suits you.
It will probably produce some disastrous chess, but it's all good fun.
Town arms Selkirk Tue 31st Oct 7.30pm
10 Oct 2023: Borders League AGM
The Borders GM was held in the Town Arms on October 10th. It was quite well attended, with 14 members being present (plus 4 apologies) and the discussions themselves ran very smoothly.
With Selkirk only entering one team this year, the League is smaller; but on the other hand we are planning for the Spring (i) an allegro tournament, and (ii) a simultaneous display. We are also looking at extending graded indivudual tournament within the clubs.
Finally, this website will change with a view to centring on the Borders League rather than just the Selkirk Club. It will entail several changes and may take a little time, but it is hoped that it will better reflect what is happening in Borders Chess. Further announcements will be made as things progress.
Archive of home pages
An archive of recent home pages can be found at...
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 |