End of season curry evening
Another very successful curry night on Thursday at the Taste of Spice in Selkirk. We got 8 members there and as usual the food was excellent (I had ginger & chilli chicken and it was first class). Here we are at our table
Left hand side (from the front): Martin Keen; Ian Thompson; Dave Bogle; John Moore.
Right hand side (from the back): Chris Nathan; Laura Edmunds; Kevin Poulton; Cameron Carter.
The photo was taken by an employee of Taste of Spice. The restaurant is in the centre of Selkirk, and their website is https://thetasteofspice.com . If you're in Selkirk for an evening, please give them a try!
Selkirk B v Kelso: Great game by Cameron Carter
A 3-1 defeat for Selkirk B at the Town Arms on Tuesday 16th May; but wait for this... there was a total points deficit of 1801 Elo points between the teams! Yes, 1801 points. Given that discrepancy, the surprise of the evening was Cameron Carter's (1325) amazing slugfest with Keith Aitchison (1678) in a game which had material imbalance almost from the start. It's on this website, so please play through it. You won't be disappointed.
Match results, and the Carter-Aitchison game...
Borders Individual Minor: Cameron is the winner
The final results are in from the Minor section: Cameron Carter beat Ian Thompson to take the title; Martin Keen beat Alan Armstrong; Alan Miles and Kevin Poulton drew their game; and William Lawrie beat Logan Symons. Congratulations to Cameron Carter! The new tables are below.Minor section
Archive of home pages
An archive of recent home pages can be found at...
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:
 |
Flip the board (to toggle it from White's / Black's point of view) |
 |
Forward one move |
 |
Back one move |
 |
Go to start of game |
 |
Go to end of game |
 |
Start automoves: the program will play through the game automatically, at 1½ seconds per move |
 |
Stop automatic moves |