ACP Newsletter

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.

Russian Grandmaster Alexander Grischuk won the 5th ACP Cup in Riga. In a tense final, Grischuk beat his compatriot Yan Nepomniachtchi in the decisive Armageddon game. All results and info can be found at the tournament's website: www.acp-cup.com

The ACP is proud to anounce that a partnership agreement with a professional Chess Openings 24/7 service www.chessopenings24-7.com has been reached.

If you look for a day by day opening advice from the top theoreticians, the Chess Openings 24/7 is strongly recommended.

The ACP is glad to announce that the Anti-Cheating Committe has been formed. It consists of 5 representatives of the ACP and 5 representatives of FIDE:
 
ACP Representatives:
IA Laurent Freyd
IO Yuri Garrett
GM/FST Miguel Illescas
GM/FST Konstantin Landa
IM Kenneth Regan

FIDE Representatives:
IA Klaus Deventer
FM/IA/IO/FST Israel Gelfer
Michalis Kaloumenos
IM/IO George Mastrokoukos
FM/IA Shaun Press

Dear all,

due to the increased level of fraud and suspicions of cheating of lately in chess. I would like to to present you an idea of how to deal with the problem.

The idea for anti-cheating commission is fairly simple.
You know that in all sports there are is the so-called doping police. In chess, the main doping is the use of chess engines during the game.
ACP can create a squad, which will receive signals of possible cheating. The players under suspicion can be checked by the doping police randomly and without any hint of what is going to happen.