7th February: Nick Duffell trophy
On Tuesday night we had a very welcome visit from Liz Duffell, widow of Selkirk player Nick Duffell, who died last year. Liz came to the club to present the Nick Duffell trophy to Kelso's Ross Blackford for being the most improved Borders player over the last year. Congratulations to Ross on this great achievement, and many thanks to Liz for initiating the new award. It is a fitting way for Borders players to remember Nick and his love of chess.Selkirk B 1½ Kelso 2½
Despite being heavily outgraded, Selkirk B put up a good fight on Tuesday night against visitors Kelso, and all four games were tightly contested. An exceptional performance came from Bill Miller on Board 3 (Elo 1369), who outplayed Ian Whittaker (Elo 1574) in a very impressive victory. Details are on the matches page...Borders Individual Championship
Here are the latest standings in the Borders Individual championships,Premier section
Minor section
New blog feature
We're redesigning the blog pages, and the first change is the addition of pages dedicated to players in the Borders League. We kick off the new series with pages on Stasys Gimbutis and Keith Aitchison, and more will follow shortly. In the meantime, if you would like a page about yourself, then please send very brief biographical details and two of your best wins.
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 |