28 Mar 2024: BICC; Edin Congress; Club match
Gala player Gerry Johnstone came to the Town Arms on Tuesday to play his 5th round Border Individual match against Dave Bogle. The game ended in an agreed draw, with Gerry in a superior but uncertain position on account of a possible counter-attack.
In the Selkirk Championship, Bill Miller and Ian Thompson played a long game which eventually ended in favour of Bill Miller.
The Edinburgh Park Congress proved an enjoyable weekend for Selkirk entrants John Moore and Sam Cornwell. Both scored 2/5 in the Minor section, and Sam scored 4/9 in the Saturday night blitz tournament.
Matches page, including Johnstone v Bogle...
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
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 |