Selkirk B lose to Gala
Selkirk B's first match of the season did not go according to plan. On board 4, Cameron Carter generated an attack that was enough to overwhelm Gala's Paddy Lynch, but the other boards all lost despite very good starts to their games.The result was a 3-1 victory for Gala, and the full details are here:
Results from BICC Minor
The game between Cameron Carter (White) and Kevin Poulton was played in the Town Arms this week the 15th November. A report from Kevin says:"Cameron started very aggressively and quickly gained control of the centre of the board. He quickly got Kevin in moving his King which got his rook on h8 effectively stuck, unable to castle. All pieces were stuck in the centre of the board, but with the free rook Carter took dominance. Last gamble Kevin took a chance of a queen exchange but the damage had already been done, which Cameron acknowledged was the only move to make.
Kevin resigned on move 21.
In another all-Selkirk tie, Martin Keen eventually came through against Alan Miles after a very even game. Martin shaded it at the end, though.
Play through the Carter-Poulton game on our Matches Page...
Borders Individual Championship
The draws are out for the two sections of the BICC, and here they are:Premier section
Minor section
Grades for 2022-23
The grades for 2022-23 are now out, with the usual mix of winners and losers. Logan Symons (NHS) has come up by 98 points to 1008 and - again in the NHS team - Stasys Gimbutis has put on another 97 points to be graded 1653 this season. In the Selkirk club, Dave Bogle is the greatest improver with a 70 point leap to 1613.But by a huge distance, the greatest jump is by Kelso's Ross Blackford; Ross has increased his grade by a spectacular 381 points to become the Borders number 1 on 1827. Yes, 1446 to 1827! Very impressive from 16-year-old Ross.
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 |