ACP Newsletter

Grandmaster Ivan Saric (Croatia) gets the ACP wild-card for the participation in Poikovsky Supertournament. Since the start of the ACP Tour 2014, Ivan Saric has won the Wijk-aan-zee "B" tournament, Croatian Championship, and shared second place in the recent European Championship. These results brought him a significant number of points in the ACP Tour, enabling his qualification for the wild-card.

Dear colleagues,

The ACP Board has

It is with a great deal of sadness that we are informing you of the death of one of the leading grandmasters in the world Vugar Gashimov.

Vugar was born on 24 June 1986 in Baku, Azerbaijan and passed away on the night 10-11 January 2014 in Heidelberg, Germany. For years he had suffered from epilepsy and a tumor in brain.

Dear ACP Members,

One of the first decisions of the current ACP Board after its election about two years ago was to waive the membership fee until we could show concrete results of our dynamic work.

Now, we are proud to present 10 selected areas of activity we have succeeded in since January 2012:

1. Organisation of tournaments

1. ACP Membership Structure

Chess professionals (such as players, coaches, arbiters, organisers) and/or enthusiasts supporting the ACP can join the ACP in one of the following three categories:

1.1.  ACP Premium members

1.2.  ACP Standard members

1.3.  ACP Club members

2. Rights and Obligations

Dear ACP members,

India, led by the world champion Viswanathan Anand, has recently become one of the most impressively growing chess countries. We are proud to announce that one of India's best player, 20-year old Parimarjan Negi, has joined the ACP Board to share his experience and ideas. His active involvement will definitely help the ACP to promote and develop chess worldwide, as well as to better understand and even more efficiently solve problems that chess professionals encounter in Asia.