07 Jan 2024: New Year 2024
The holiday season is over, and the League is back in business with two matches this Tuesday 9th January. The Town Arms sees a visit from the NHS team as they take on Selkirk; and Kelso are "at home" to Gala, though the match will be played in the Focus Centre.
Meanwhile, we have two Borders Individual results: in the Minor section, Sam Cornwell and Logan Symons drew their second round match, and in the second round of the Championship, Ian Whittaker defeated Dave Bogle.
Matches page, with Bogle v Whittaker (BICC)
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
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 |