Ayrshire documentation can now be found here along with the Laws of chess.

Bookmarking the page would be advisable.

6/3/2026

Results and games from the 6th round of the Ayrshire Championship now available. 

3/3/2026

Congratulations to Alistair McIntyre on winning the JBW Robertson cup last night, all games and results and tables are now available.

23/01/2026

Below is the text of a message received from Ruslan Dudkin of Ardrossan Chess club.

As you can see he has a few ideas and pleas for help and opinions.

If you can help or wish to get involved with his various ideas please get in touch with the Association Secretary and he will pass on your offers to help.

"I’m hoping to take Vlad to the European School Chess Championship in April, where he’ll be playing in the Under 9 section. I’ve started looking into possible financial support, so I’d really appreciate any ideas or advice you might have.

More broadly, I’m planning to focus on developing chess in Ayrshire. One of my main goals is to establish a charity, Ayrshire Chess Development. I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts on this, and whether you might like to be involved in its creation.

I’d also like to ask for your support in communicating with your MSPs. As you know, they typically engage most actively with constituents from their own electoral areas. I’ve already spoken with my MSPs and suggested the idea of forming a Cross-Party Group in Parliament dedicated to the revival and development of chess in Scotland. I would also like to speak with representatives of South Ayrshire Council.

This year marks the 120th anniversary of the Ayrshire Chess Association, which I see as a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness and generate wider support. Many people simply aren’t aware of the region’s chess history.

In addition, I’m keen to explore organising more events, including congresses and allegro tournaments."

21/02/2026

Leagues are updated with matches played.

15/02/2026

A report on Junior event 6 and the entry form for Junior event 7 are now available.

We have been loaned an almost complete set of Ayrshire Chess Bulletins and have now placed them on the site in the documents section

This completes what we have been generously allowed access to.

We have not got pages 6/7 of the 75/76 season and would like to receive any information about it's whereabouts.

The 31st edition consists of three pages which came out on the 26th December 1980. The possibility exists that the bulletins ceased publication at that point or a second bulletin out in, presumably, April or so would complete it. Any information as to what happened would be gratefully received.

If anyone has a copy of either buried somewhere we would be very interested in acquiring it to copy for the archive.

Due to the size of the paper used in the original it is sometimes necessary to scan a page twice to capture all the information which hopefully explains why there seems to be duplicate pages.