Current grades for all clubs

A list of all players in the last 10 years can be found in the historical page.

A full stop "." against a player's grade indicates that the player was not active in the Borders League that season, while a zero "0" indicates that the player was active but ungraded.

For how to calculate grades, see the calculating section on this page...

Selkirk Chess Club: last five years
Surname	Firstname	Pnum	2122	2223	2324	2425	2526
Bogle	Dave	3226	1543	1613	1588	1574	1586
Moore	John	5345	1413	1389	1425	1411	1449
Gardiner	Mark	32170	.	.	.	0	1387
Hope	Geoff	4378	.	.	.	1265	1290
Miller	Bill	5273	1360	1369	1390	1387	1282
Cornwell	Sam	31463	.	.	0	1075	1241
Wylie	Tam	32169	.	.	.	0	1174
Thompson	Ian	6245	1310	1241	1241	1154	1066
Leckie	Steve	28896	1131	1118	1105	1082	1037
Cornwell	Harry	32395	.	.	.	0	938
Poulton	Kevin	28628	854	844	877	849	914
Nathan	Chris	17535	857	870	870	880	829
Carter	Steve	32792	.	.	.	.	0
Brown	Alex	32791	.	.	.	.	0
Henry	Tyler	29939	0	1428	1428	.	.
Carter	Cameron	29570	0	1325	1412	.	.
Cameron	Andrew	.	.	.	.	0	.
McGowan	Blair	.	.	.	.	0	.
Keen	Martin	10004	1444	1409	1397	1397	.
Miles	Alan	5258	1032	1041	984	953	.

NHS Borders
Surname	Firstname	Pnum	2122	2223	2324	2425	2526
Gimbutis	Stasys	24396	1556	1653	1669	1662	1671
Lawrie	William	30450	.	.	1260	1260	1260
Litster	Steve	27538	1186	1212	1186	1186	1204
Symons	Logan	26248	910	1008	1014	1056	1113
Cooke	Suzie	8393	.	.	.	1920	.

Galashiels
Surname	Firstname	Pnum	2122	2223	2324	2425	2526
Wallace	Martin	6355	1755	1695	1731	1746	1720
Christie	Gordon	18935	.	1670	1718	1724	1719
Stewart	Alastair	6114	1576	1576	1576	1572	1561
Johnstone	Gerry	31462	.	.	1513	1509	1482
Crosbie	Rob	3641	1213	1181	1186	1205	1186
McGilvray	Alistair	10590	1108	1108	1108	1142	1142
Gray	Alistair	11578	967	969	993	1090	1118
Birbeck	George	12981	1129	1129	1129	1129	1111
Robinson	Keith	19663	1143	1158	1113	1097	1082
Young	Russell	32288	.	.	.	0	796
Rodgie	Craig	32726	.	.	.	0	0
Rutherford	Craig	30128	0	0	0	0	0
Lawson	Tom	12337	955	955	955	955	.
Lynch	Paddy	30139	.	.	0	.
Feechan	John	31170	.	.	0	.
Graham	Sasha	31336	.	.	0	.
Gray	Zak	29650	0	0	0	.
Wilson	Stuart	21649	.	1631	1644	.	.

Kelso
Surname	Firstname	Pnum	2122	2223	2324	2425	2526
Blackford	Ross	28276	1446	1827	1926	1950	2027
Aitchison	Keith	3020	1701	1678	1575	1612	1644
Whittaker	Ian	6460	1588	1574	1584	1611	1565
Armstrong	Kevin	13778	1456	1405	1418	1418	1418
Armstrong	Alan	3074	1424	1418	1349	1340	1338
Armstrong	Sandy	8316	1227	1227	1227	1206	1187

The grading system

The Scottish Grading system is based on the system developed in the 1950s by Professor Arpad Elo, and used by FIDE in its lists.

The Elo system uses probabilities to calculate the value of a result to a player; in simple terms, more credit is given for defeating a much stronger player than a player of around your own strength or below. The other side of the coin is that losing to or drawing with a player significantly lower than yourself will be costly.

Chess Scotland website

A full explanation of CS gradings is at https://www.chessscotland.com/grading/overview/

Automatic calculators

Two spreadsheets to do this are: