27 Aug 2024: 24-25 Selkirk Championship underway
The first two matches of the 2024-25 championship have now been played.
The first match saw Sam Cornwell (White) record a victory over new member Tam Wylie. In the second match, Kevin Poulton fought a hard game against the experienced Ian Thompson, but a blunder under pressure decided the game in Ian's favour.
04 June 2024: Dave Bogle is 23-24 Selkirk Champion
Report by Kevin Poulton
The best game got saved to last. In an amazing game where Alan Miles was outgraded by 604 rating points against Dave Bogle. A tight opening and middle game resulted in exchanges and Alan forced a draw against the far better graded opponent. This must be the result of the tournament. Well done, Alan.
However, a draw was good enough for Dave, who played solid all the way through all his games, to win the Selkirk Club 2024 Championship and congratulations must go to Dave.
All players played 7 rated games and the final standings are:
| 1st | Dave Bogle | 6 pts |
| 2nd= | Bill Miller | 5½ pts |
| 2nd= | John Moore | 5½ pts |
| 4th | Sam Cornwell | 3½ pts |
| 5th | Ian Thompson | 3 pts |
| 6th | Kevin Poulton | 2 pts |
| 7th | Alan Miles | 1½ pts |
| 8th | Chris Nathan | 1 pt |
This has been a hugely successful competition and thank you all the players who took part.
The final cross table is listed below:
05 Apr 2024: John Moore is champion
The fifth round of the Borders Individual Championship (Minor section) saw two key results: John Moore defeated Gala's Keith Robinson; and Alistair Gray and Logan Symons drew their game. Alistair had been the only player who could catch John Moore, and so John is the new champion. Congratulations to the Selkirk Captain!
04 Apr 2024: Curry night at the Taste of Spice
Our annual curry night was held on Thursday 04 April in the Taste of Spice, and (as always) the food and drink were first class. A thoroughly enjoyable evening in one of the best restaurants in the area.
The Taste of Spice is in Market Place, Selkirk, and offers a wide selection of Indian and other food.
Taste of Spice website, including menus...
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 |