Dear Premium Members,

The final standings of the ACP Tour 2017 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 Members,

The Association of Chess Professionals continues the tradition of appreciating and awarding the best chess organizers from around the world. This year we are anticipating our poll to make it even more relevant. 

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 ACP members,

The ACP General Assembly 2017 will take place from December 21, 2017 to January 4, 2018.

You can take part in the ACP General Assembly via this link.

All Premium and Standard members registered in the Association before December 22, 2016 have the right to take part in votes for the General Assembly and ACP elections.

Project of Agenda:

I. ACP President's annual report (link)

Dear colleagues,

Another year approaches its end, and it is a proper time to summarize the ACP activities.

It was a very busy year with a lot of projects - we kept supporting our veterans, significantly expanded and strengthened the cooperation with the whole range 

Revenue and expenditure (euros)

REVENUE:

EXPENDITURE:

The cooperation with Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival continues and goes from strength to strength. As usual, there will be several dozens of ACP Premium members participating in the tournament, and ACP introduces four special prizes - two for overall standings (2000 GBP and 1000 GBP), and two for the ladies (600 GBP and 400 GBP). These prizes will be awarded to the highest-placed ACP Premiums, who did not win a bigger regular prize in the tournament. In order to be eligible for the prizes, a player has to be the ACP Premium for the year 2018.

Dear Members,
 

ACP is pleased to inform our members about the new cooperation - the agreement with one of the best open tournaments in the world, the chess.com Isle of Man International, which will take place in October 2018.

ACP Board is pleased to announce the wild cards for the 2018 Tata Steel CHess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee.

GM Maxim Matlakov - Masters wildcard.
GM Dmitry Gordievsky - Challengers wildcard.

GM Michal Krasenkow - Veteran spot in Challengers.

The wildcards are based on the ACP Tour standings of December 1st, 2017.
We thank the organizers for this fruitful cooperation and wish a great success to the 80th edition of the World's most famous chess tournament.

ACP Board condemns the decision of FIDE to stage the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in Saudi Arabia. This kind of event can not and should not take place in a country that does not guarantee an entry to the representatives of all the federations, and has gender and religion discriminatory laws. That clearly contradicts the FIDE's own Status (1.2)