Newsletter 2010 and the farewall message from Olena Boytsun

Report on the ACP Tour and ACP Women Series 2009-2010

Both final tournaments of the ACP Tour and ACP Women Series 2009 - 2010 have been completed in the first days of July. Vasily Ivanchuk emerged as the winner for the second time after the edition 2007 - 2008. He gathered 2897 points in ten events. Curiously enough, two players finished joint second with 2340 points! Levon Aronian reached this score out of eleven tournaments, while Vladimir Kramnik needed only six. As usual, the first 13 places of the final standings qualify to the next ACP World Rapid Cup.

The race in the Women Series has been dominated by the Kosintseva sisters. Thanks to her second place at the recent FIDE Grand Prix in Jermuk, Tatiana eventually edged out Nadezhda, and repeated her success of the Second Women Series. She scored a total of 2232 points out of nine tournaments, while her sister came to 2172 out of nine events as well. Anna Muzychuk ended third with 1803 points out of seven tournaments. The first 8 players of the final standings qualify to the Second ACP Women World Rapid Cup.

Whereas the Rules of the 4th ACP Women Series 2010-11 remain the same, the Rules of the 7th ACP Tour 2010-11 have been slightly modified. In view of the increasing number of tournaments rated as Level A, the ACP Board decided to create a new level. The so-called Super Level will apply to tournaments whose strength exceeds 2725 according to the ACP scale. Consequently, the tables of the ACP Points System have been adjusted at some places. Everything can be checked at http://www.chess-players.org/eng/tour/tour_2010/rules.html

ACP Board
July 7th 2010

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ACP Board Newsletter - 2009

The ACP Board Newsletters for 2009 are available to download.

ACP Board Newsletter #1: http://chess-players.org/img/news/ACP-newsletter-01-2009-eng.pdf

ACP Board Newsletter #2: http://chess-players.org/img/news/ACP-newsletter-02-2009-eng.pdf

ACP Board Newsletter #3: http://chess-players.org/img/news/ACP-newsletter-03-2009-eng.pdf

ACP Board Newsletter #4: http://chess-players.org/img/news/ACP-newsletter-04-2009-eng.pdf

All members of the ACP received the newsletter directly to their email. In case you are a member of the ACP and don’t receive your copy, please, contact Olena Boytsun at strategical.development@gmail.com

The newsletter is published at the ACP website with the delay.

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Vishwanathan Anand is the World Chess Champion

Dear Vishy,
We would like to warmly congratulate you on the brilliant victory in the World Chess Championship match that took place in Sofia in April-May 2010. You retained your title as the World Chess Champion, having showed outstanding mastership and commitment.

We would like to wish you all the best for the future and hope that your beautiful games will warm the hearts of chess fans for many years to come.

Best wishes,
Olena Boytsun
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Elmira Mirzoeva
Vadim Morokhovskiy
Sergey Movsesian
Yannick Pelletier
Emil Sutovsky
Pavel Tregubov


The full letter can be downloaded at http://chess-players.org/img/news/acp-letter-anand-champion-may2010-eng.pdf


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Fourth ACP World Rapid Cup, 27-29 May 2010

GM Drozdovskij will participate in the 4th ACP World Rapid Cup

The system (a KO with 2 rapid games played in matches at the first three stages, and 4 rapid games played in the final) was identical to the system of the ACP World Cup.

The Odessa region's highest rated player, GM Yuri Drozdovskij, won the tournament.
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Fourth ACP World Rapid Cup, 27-29 May 2010

The 4th ACP WRC will be a KO tournament. The time control will be 20 minutes per game with an increment of 5 seconds per move.

16 players will fight for the Cup: 13 grandmasters who performed best in the ACP Tour 2008/2009 + 3 Wild Cards given by the organizers.

Detailed information can be found on the tournament's site www.worldcup.pivdenny.com.

Tournament Director Maria Klinova: mklinova@rambler.ru, cell +38-0674839371

ACP Board

Twitt the ACP!

Please, follow the ACP on Twitter - http://twitter.com/acpsecretary

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European Championships, Rijeka 5-19 March 2010

Dear participants of the European Chess Championships in Rijeka,

This year you can register for the event directly on the official web-site: www.eurorijeka2010.com/home/Registration

Let us remind you that if you pay for your hotel accommodation until January 30th, you benefit from a 10% discount: www.eurorijeka2010.com/home/Services/Accommodation

ACP Board

Happy New Year!

Dear ACP members,

Every person will have his or her own memories about 2009; however, we are all united by our common passion to chess. This year the Association of Chess Professionals celebrated its 5th anniversary and we are glad that the number of ACP members is growing every year.

We wish you all the best for 2010 – good health, interesting trips, nice memories and brilliant chess games!

Happy New Year!

ACP Board

Vladimir Malakhov is the European Rapid Champion 2009!

ACP Membership Fee 2009

Dear ACP members,

We kindly remind you that the deadline for the annual payment of the membership fee is 31st of December 2009.

The results of players who failed to pay their membership fee before the deadline will not be counted for the ACP Tour and Women Series 2008-2009.

The ACP Board has taken the following decision concerning membership fees.

Starting from the year 2009, ACP members will be able to pay their fees for two or three years in advance. In case they wish to do so, they will benefit from the following discount:

- ACP membership fee for 1 year: 30 euros (as before)
- ACP membership fee for 2 years: 55 euros (instead of 60)
- ACP membership fee for 3 years: 80 euros (instead of 90)

For new members, the ACP fee is still at 50 euros for the first year. But they too can benefit from the discount, if they wish to pay in advance:
75 euros for 2 years (instead of 80), or 100 euros for 3 years (instead of 110).

This measure should ease the task of the Treasurer and reward trusting members.

May 6th 2009
ACP Board

First ACP Women World Rapid Cup

Alexandra Kosteniuk wins the First ACP Women World Rapid Cup!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Alexandra shares the following impressions about the ACP Women Rapid Cup and the ACP in general:

I am glad that I was able to change my schedule at relatively short notice to be able to fly to Turkey and take place in this great tournament. I was attracted by the prestige of the event and by the strong competition taking part, such as GM's Pia Cramling and Monika Socko, the sisters Tatiana and Nadezhda Kosintseva (Tatiana is GM, Nadezhda is IM), of course the very solid Viktorija Cmilyte, Natalia Zhukova, and Lela Javakhishvili, and some more good players. I knew the level would be very high and that I would have to give it my best. At the end, I am very satisfied with my 10/11, which corresponds to a performance of 2746 ELO! I made a full report about the tournament on my blog at http://www.chessblog.com/2009/12/kosteniuk-wins-first-acp-women-world.html

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