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Vladimir Malakhov is the European Rapid Champion 2009!

Bartlomiej Macieja [Wed Dec 23rd, 20:48]

The European Rapid Championship 2009 (and at the same time the 9th Amplico Life International Chess Tournament) took place in Warsaw, Poland, on the 19th and 20th of December. It was clearly the biggest and the strongest championship ever with 685 participants and the average rating of top 5 players equal to 2728.
The biggest stars were Vugar Gashimov, Vassily Ivanchuk and Alexei Shirov, however Sergei Movsesian, Vladimir Malakhov and Viorel Bologan were also among favourites.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.