Уважаемые Коллеги,

Ассоциация Шахматных Профессионалов продолжает традицию награждения лучших организаторов со всего мира. Чтобы определить лучшие шахматные мероприятия, мы приглашаем Вас выбрать наиболее полюбившиеся Вам из следующих групп — Круговые турниры, Опены, Официальные соревнования, Рапид и Блиц.

Мы предлагаем каждому респонденту выбрать не более 3 турниров в каждой из категорий, предложенных ниже, и не более 5 лучших на Ваш взгляд турниров в целом. Этот опрос АШП определит лучший турнир 2016 года.

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Dear Members,

The Association of Chess Professionals continues the tradition of appreciating and awarding the best chess organizers from around the world. To determine the best event, we invite you all to pick your most-liked events from each of the following categories – Round Robin, Open, Official and Rapid/Blitz. 
 

Dear Members,

Spring is upon us and chess life is bustling. We would like to inform you of quite a few activities we undertook in the previous period.

Dear Members,

First of all we would like to congratulate our Premium Member GM Gawain Jones, an ACP wild card, on winning the Challengers Group in Wijk aan Zee, thus qualifying for the Masters next year. Well done, Gawain!

Our cooperation with Tata Steel continues, and soon we will be announcing the wild cards procedure for the 2018 edition.

OPEN LETTER

The ACP Board would like to inform the chess community about the unfair decision of Singapore Chess Federation (SCF), which has banned the country's top players GM Zhang Zhong and WGM Li Ruofan from the participation in the forthcoming Zonal tournament in Philippines, starting on February 24, 2017.

Our work to unite more opens in our ACP Tour resulted in cooperation with theLlucmajor Open. This open takes place on the Mallorca island and Llucmajor is a suburb of the capital Palma. The dates are 13 (day of the blitz, first round is on 14) to21 May and we have allocated 3000 EUR for our Premiums in addition to the regular prize fund. The special conditions for our Premiums with 2600+ include full board, travel expenses and pocket money.

ACP is proud to announce the European Women Rapid Championship in Monaco, in a cooperation with ECU.

The regulations for the European Women Rapid Championship can be found here.

Dear Members,
 
We hope you had a pleasant festive season, even though probably many of you spent the holidays playing chess! And that is good, for playing and enjoying chess is what unites us all.

The General Assembly of the ACP took place from 12th to 26th of December 2016. All the Premium and Standard Members who were registered had the right to vote for approval of the the financial and presidential annual reports. These reports were approved by the majority (83.3%) of our members, showing their support for our work in the previous year.

The prize will be awarded to the highest-placed ACP member in the Masters who didn't win any of the regular or category prizes.

The amount of the prize will match the amount of the last regular prize paid in the main tournament, for a sum not exceeding 1000 pounds. ACP is proud to support its members participating in Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival - the best Open Tournament of 2015, according to the popular vote among our members - Emil Sutovsky, ACP President.