20 Mar 2024: Kelso v Selkirk; a miller brilliancy
Kelso came to the Town Arms on Tuesday 19th to play their "home" match against Selkirk, and came away 3-1 winners over Selkirk. The games went broadly in line with grading, but Dave Bogle on board 1 and John Moore on board recorded draws against Ian Whittaker and Keith Aitchison respectively. This is the final game in the League, and the League table is now complete.
In the Selkirk Championships, Chris Nathan beat Sam Cornwell.
Meanwhile, Bill Miller is doing good things on chess.com. This is the fine conclusion to his game against Spanish player Kememeo, where Bill delivered an unusual two-knight mate. Nice to see - and well done Bill / Jocundday.
Matches page, including Bogle v Whittaker, and Nathan v Cornwell...
20 Mar 2024: BICC 4th rd results; 5th rd draw
The 4th round of the Minor section is now complete, and here are the results:
- ½-½: Moore v Gray
- 1-0: Symons v McGilvray
- 1-0: Robinson v Cornwell
- 0-1: Poulton v Thompson
The draw for the 5th round is:
- Robinson v Moore
- Gray v Symons
- Thompson v McGilvray
- Cornwell v Poulton
10 Mar 2024: A Congress in Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Park Congress is to be held on the weekend 22-24 March in the Novotel Edinburgh Park. It offers three standard tournaments (<2400, <1900 and <1600) plus an evening blitz event. Two members of Selkirk Chess Club have entered the under-1600 tournament, so if any other Borders players are interested then there's a good possibiilty that shared transport can be arranged.
The congress website is at http://congress.popmalc.org.uk/congress/396/home
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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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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