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Chess playing sportsmen
ACP [Fri Feb 15th, 09:00]
The following article appeared on a Spanish website and relates the passion two famous sportsmen share for the game of chess
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OlimpBase, the online encyclopaedia of international team events
ACP [Fri Dec 28th, 17:20]
OlimpBase, the online encyclopaedia of international team events, was launched in 2004, and soon became widely known and renowned source of information on team chess. Although originally it dealt merely with the history of the chess olympiads - from which idea it took its name - it grew quickly due to high pressure from the readers on adding new events into the database. Nowadays it provides detailed information on more than 300 tournaments, and still fast growing, from 1900s until today.
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Gata Kamsky wins the World Cup !
ACP Board [Tue Dec 18th, 08:21]
The ACP Board would like to congratulate Gata Kamsky on his victory at the World Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansiysk
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Clarifications of the Estonian Chess Federation (2)
ACP [Mon Nov 19th, 21:33]
The Association of Chess Professionals has received a new letter with clarifications from the Estonian Chess Federation.
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Open letter to FIDE and the 78th FIDE Congress in Antalya, Turkey by Valery Golubenko
ACP [Sun Nov 18th, 20:41]
On September 17, 2007, FIDE addressed the Estonian Chess Federation (ECF) with the letter of 5 main concerns regarding equal participation of all persons residing in Estonia in access to the chess life of Estonia and request regarding conditions upon which the citizenship of Estonia can be received. The ECF replied on Nov. 8, 2007, or one day (!) prior to the FIDE Congress, leaving in fact no chance to the Supreme Institution of FIDE to study it thoroughly.
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Clarifications of the Estonian Chess Federation
ACP [Thu Nov 15th, 03:38]
The ACP has received a letter from the Estonian Chess Federation regarding recently published articles with serious accusations made against the ECF.
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Consecutive Letter to FIDE addressed by the parents of young chess players of Estonia
ACP [Tue Nov 13th, 07:06]Four months ago, on July the 14th, we appealed to FIDE, ACP and ECU stressing that ECF discriminates our children by violating their right to participate in youth World and European championships. Following our appeal on August the 5th a meeting of ACP and FIDE was held in Moscow. As a result, FIDE sent over to ECF a letter of investigation.
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Open letter by Teimour Radjabov
ACP [Tue Nov 13th, 00:27]
I would like to appeal to all reporters writing about chess, the editors-in-chief of chess magazines and web sites, to all reporters and chess fans.
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Turkish Chess Federation Sued European Chess Union
ACP [Thu Oct 18th, 02:56]
Ali Nihat YAZICI: It is with big sadness for me to say that we have sued the ECU in the judicial court in Lausanne on 3rd of October, for the decision taken in the last board meeting in Novi Sad on 24 August 2007.
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Interview with IM Vasik Rajlich, author of Rybka chess program
ACP [Fri Jul 27th, 07:38]Vasik Rajlich is an International Master and the
author of Rybka chess playing program. Rybka is one of the strongest chess
playing programs in the world, Rybka won the recently held 15th World Computer
Chess Championship also Rybka beat GM Joel Benjamin very convincingly with 4.5
- 1.5 score. Vasik's wife, Iweta (in the picture with him) is also an
International Master, she helps him with the development of Rybka.
In this interview Vasik Rajlich, he tells us about Rybka chess playing program,
updates on Rybka vs Fritz match, anti-computer chess etc.We hope our readers
would enjoy reading the interview with interesting snaps of IM Vasik Rajlich.
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