Who are we?
The Surrey Border League is a local chess league, originally
formed in 1961. Before then the Surrey County Chess Association
awarded the "Waechter Trophy" for "competition among
clubs in the Guildford area". Possibly called the "Border League"
in the early days by the 1990s/ early 2000s it was known as the
"Surrey/ Hampshire Border League" and around 2004 it just became
known as "the Surrey Border League".
This website?
This website was developed by Mike Gunn in September/ October 2025.
Its main aim is to provide information about league rules, club
details etc. If you notice any mistakes/ have ideas for improvements
send them to mikewxyz@gmail.com. Details about current club fixtures
and results can be found on the ECF LMS site (see Fixtures and Results
page for how to find that). On this site clicking on any word with
a pink background (as with the navigation bar above) will take
you to a separate page. The same applies to the list of clubs
playing in the league on the Clubs page. In time I intend to
add some more pages here with some history of the league,
historical results (winners of trophies etc).
Map
This map shows the geographical positions of chess clubs
who play in the Surrey Border League. It uses public domain
data provided by OpenStreetmap.
Click here for the
interactive version where you can pan across the area and zoom
in and out. If you are using a computer with a mouse zooming
in or out is controlled by the wheel and you pan by holding down
the left button on your mouse and moving the mouse.
The club locations are based on longitude and
latitude values derived from Google Maps and mostly seem to
put club venues in the right places, but let me know if
your club venue is in the wrong place. I have already
received several useful suggestions for improving the
locations and will try to do this in the near future.