Occasional blogs and general articles

Suggestions, articles, interesting games etc? Please send in your contribution to the editor at ed@chessborders.co.uk. Current and past blog entries are given on this page.

Notable players in the borders League

A selection of games from some of the best players in the League. Please feel free to contribute your own games, annotated or not.

Martin Wallace Stasys Gimbutis Keith Aitchison Nicole Mullen
Martin Keen . . .

Latest articles

In praise of problems

If your immediate reaction to this headline is to run away thinking, "Oh no. I hate problems.  There are pieces all over the place, and they're totally artificial... etc etc", then please bear with me for just a few minutes;  for until quite recently that would have been my reaction too...

In praise of problems...

An end to post mortems

I suppose we've all been there. We've played a decent enough game and we're looking at sustaining an advantage; when suddenly the mistake comes, and the next thing you know we're looking to hold on for a draw...

An end to postmortems...

Chess on the web

There is a huge amount of chess on the web now.  Here is a very small selection of what's available.

Web resources...

Previous years: 2022-23

Nick Duffell: 1958-2022

Blog from 2022-23...

Previous years: 2021-22

Results of Borders Individual - Curry night at the Taste of Spice

Blog from 2021-22..

Previous years: 2018-19

Selkirk players in BICC - Borders AGM - Lightning night - Max Turner - Three disasters - Yuri Averbakh - etc etc...

Blog from 2018-19...