The wild cards for 2017 were provided to Ian Nepomniachtchi (Masters) and Gawain Jones (Challengers) based on ACP Tour standings, as well as Ilya Smirin (Challengers) based on the agreement on veteran players.
We'd like to thank the organizers of Tata Steel for the fruitful cooperation.
Dear Premium Members,
The final standings of the ACP Tour 2016 will be published on January 20th.
Before this date you are kindly requested:
- to check that all your results are taken into account;
- to check if all your results are correctly calculated.
Dear friends,
Another exciting chess year is approaching its end, and it is a good time to summarize the ACP activity in 2016.
The new ACP Board started its work on January 1 , and we were trying to build on the previous experience and fresh minds as well.
Revenue and expenditure (euros)
REVENUE:
| Sponsors | € 38.100 |
| Membership fees 2014 | € 12.723 |
| ACP commissions | € 179 |
| Currency exchange | € 9 |
EXPENDITURE:
Dear ACP members,
The ACP General Assembly 2016 will take place from December 12 to December 26, 2016.
You can take part in the ACP General Assembly via this link.
All Premium and Standard members registered in the Association before December 12, 2015 have the right to take part in votes for the General Assembly and ACP elections.
Project of Agenda:
Dear Members,
We'd like to start our Newsletter by congratulating Magnus Carlsen for winning the World Championship Match and praising Sergey Karjakin for putting up a great fight. Kudos to both of these great players for promoting our game!
Now, to the ACP matters.
The end of the year approaches and the work of the ACP intensified as many events are scheduled for the coming festive period.
Dear chess friends,
ACP invites you to take part in the World Championship format poll.
Whether you are the ACP member or not, you are welcome to express your opinion. It does count!
Please find the poll via this link.
ACP - making the chess world a better place.
ACP Newsletter January 2016
Dear Members,
The beginning of the year is a good time to update you on the latest activities of the ACP as there were a lot of them. We are proud that a lot of good work was accomplished and we continue to improve the world of chess.
Dear Members,
It was a very eventful summer on the chess scene both on and off the board.
In the ACP Opens our members did well – in Warsaw, the Miguel Najdorf Memorial was won by our Premium Member GM Grzegorz Gajewski with the result 7.5/9 ahead of two other Premiums – GM Ilya Smirin (7/9) and GM Hrant Melkumyan (6.5/9).
The Gideon Japhet Memorial in Jerusalem was won by GM Arkadij Naiditsch with 6.5/7 ahead of many people on 5/7 – among them were our Premiums GM Daniil Yuffa, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and GM Avital Boruchovsky.