Defeat against Kelso
Kelso were the visitors for a match against Selkirk A on Tuesday 28th, and they came away with a 4-0 victory against the home team. We sometimes say that the games were closer than you might imagine, and in this case they most certainly were. Ian Thompson, facing a 333 Elo deficit against Ian Whittaker, played excellent and tenacious chess until eventually losing. Kevin Poulton v Alan Armstrong saw an even greater deficit in favour of the Kelso player (574 points!) but despite an early loss of material, it looked for a time that Kevin would hold the position. But it was not to be, and Selkirk A suffered a 4-0 defeat.
In other news, Alan Miles and Keith Robinson have drawn their 4th round BICC tie. We may have that game for you next week.
Match results and the Bogle-Blackford game...
NHS matches: Revised fixture list
Three fixtures involving Selkirk teams and the NHS have been rescheduled, as follows. Please note that all three fixtures will be played on WEDNESDAYS, at the BGH
- Selkirk A v NHS, originally scheduled for 23 May 2023, will now be played on Wed 07 Jun
- NHS v Selkirk B, originally scheduled for 01 Feb 2023, will now be played on Wed 03 May
- Selkirk B v NHS, originally scheduled for 04 Apr 2023, will now be played on Wed 28 Jun
Matches page, with revised fixtures...
Download printable (PDF) file of the Selkirk teams' fixtures...
Borders Individual Championship
Here are the latest standings in the Borders Individual championships,Premier section
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:
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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 |