Occasional blogs and general articles

Suggestions, articles, interesting games etc? Please send in your contribution to the editor at ed@chessborders.co.uk. Current and past blog entries are given on this page.  The photo shows Nick Dunne, Sam Cornwell and Maurice Richards at the 2026 Perth Qiuckplay(see Sam Cornwell's report here...)

Notable players in the borders League

A selection of games from some of the best players in the League. Please feel free to contribute your own games, annotated or not.

Latest articles

Seven rounds at Perth 

Three Selkirk players to Perth on the 22nd May to take part in a tough 7-round Swiss at Perth.  All three members of Team Selkirk did well, and their full results are in this report from Sam Cornwell.

Seven rounds in Perth...

An end to post mortems

I suppose we've all been there. We've played a decent enough game and we're looking at sustaining an advantage; when suddenly the mistake comes, and the next thing you know we're looking to hold on for a draw...

An end to postmortems...