Declining entries

[George Neave]

Thank goodness someone has articulated the decline in Ayrshire chess participation. Given the raison d'etre of the Ayrshire Association is to foster and promote chess in Ayrshire, I find it very surprising that the only proposal of note for the associations AGM is to restrict spectators at league games. (the only other proposal, from the same club [Ayr], is in regard to electronic devices)

There have been several tournaments cancelled/postponed in the past season in Ayrshire, I would have thought that an urgent review of this matter would be upper most in the minds of the Ayrshire officials.

Now that we have congresses in other parts of the country where the prize is free entry into a congress in Ayrshire, I think the prospects for increased numbers in Ayrshire maybe brighter than you think.