29 Oct 2023: Lightning tournament
John Moore (left) and Dave Bogle pictured with their trophy after a highly successful lightning night on Tuesday. Both players scored 5½/6 points (drawing their individual encounter) after a hard-fought but light-hearted tournament, and agreed to share the Nick Duffell trophy. This was donated to the club by Liz Duffell, widow of Selkirk player Nick Duffell, who died last year. Our thanks go to Liz for donating ther trophy, and to everyone who took part.
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.
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 |