28 Nov 2023: BICC results
The Borders Individual championships started two weeks ago, and again there are two sections: the Championship with 6 players, and the Minor with 8 players. Two results from the Championship are available:
- Alan Armstrong lost to Dave Bogle. Alan got a strong position from the opening, but a blundered rook ended the game immediately
- Gerry Johnstone and Ian Whittaker drew their game
Three results from the Minor section
- John Moore defeated Logan Symons after a tough battle in a French Defence
- Keith Robinson won against Kevin Poulton. This was a tense and dynamic game with persistent chances for both sides, which ended with a slip-up from Kevin
- Ally MacGillvray won against Sam Cornwell
Next week the 6th of December, Selkirk are at home to Kelso. 7pm Tuesday.
The Alan Armstrong v Dave Bogle game
14 Nov 2023: Selkirk fall to impressive Gala
A strong Gala team of Martin Wallace, Gordon Christie, Gerry Johnstone and Ally Gray inflicted a 3½-½ defeat on Selkirk in the Town Arms on Tuesday 14th. Selkirk's sole half-point came from the Board 1 clash where Dave Bogle held Border Champion Martin Wallace to a draw. Board 2 might easily have seen an upset, where John Moore - facing a 293 point grading deficit - played excellently to reach a good position against Gordon Christie. Unfortunately for the Selkirk captain a slight lapse in concentration allowed a snap combination by Gordon, which brought about a sudden end to the game.
On boards 3 and 4, Gerry Johnstone and Ally Gray completed the job for Gala. ½-3½
Full results and League schedule...
01 Nov 2023: Solid start to season: 2-2 at BGH
On Wednesday a team travelled to the BGH to take on the NHS, who this year have been strengthened by the addition of Ian Thompson to their team. On board 2, John Moore and Ian Thompson agreed a draw, while board 3 saw Bill Miller overcoming Steve Litster. On board 4 Kevin Poulton had a winning position against Logan Symons, but a desperately unlucky fingerfehler caused him to lose his Queen and the game. Last to finish was a 66-move battle on Board 1 between Dave Bogle and Stasys Gimbutis, where Dave was a pawn down (or indeed 2 pawns down) for most of the game. But determined defence saved the draw for Dave, leaving the teams tied at 2-2.
Full results and League schedule...
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.
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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
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