Association of Chess Professionals
The Association of Chess Professionals (ACP) is an association of professional chess players with an office in Paris, founded in 2003 .
The statutes state that the first purpose of the association is to "protect the rights of professional chess players", which means that this association can be regarded as the first professional chess union in history.
The current president is the chess grandmaster Emil Sutovsky , predecessors were Wadim Morochowski, Pawel Tregubow and Joël Lautier . The general secretary is Bartłomiej Macieja . The ACP has 918 members, including 181 women (as of December 2012). According to the statutes, every female and male grandmaster and international master , as well as every person otherwise connected with professional chess ( chess trainer , tournament organizer , journalist , etc. - this must, however, be advised and decided by the ACP board).
Another purpose of the ACP is the practice and promotion of professional chess worldwide. The ACP wants to seek contacts to organizers and sponsors on an organized, professional level. The ACP-Tour was developed with this in mind: a calculation system that records and evaluates the strongest tournaments of a season. With the help of an ACP points system, a ranking list is kept that shows the 8 most successful players at the end of the season, who are then to play the ACP Masters among themselves.
The organization was also active during the 2004 World Chess Championship in Brissago between Kramnik and Lékó . In the announcement press conference for the competition, Grandmaster Lautier addressed FIDE that the ACP would "actively participate in the reunification process" should FIDE not bring about a competition between Garry Kasparov and the winner of the FIDE World Cup.
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- ↑ René Gralla: Interview with Joel Lautier In: de.chessbase.com. August 9, 2004, accessed November 16, 2019.