Association of Chess Professionals - ACP Board

ACP Board

In December 2011 during the ACP General Assembly the new ACP Board was elected. Starting from 01.01.2012, the ACP Board consists of the ACP President Emil Sutovsky, ACP Board Director Yuri Garrett, ACP Secretary General Bartłomiej Macieja, ACP Treasurer Pavel Tregubov and Board Members Olena Boytsun, Maria Klinova, Sergei Movsesian, Evgeniy Najer, Evgenij Romanov.

The ACP Board coordinates all activities of the ACP. The main acitivities are the following:

• Consultations of the members on the topical issues
• Development of recommendations for FIDE, national federations and other members of the chess society on the actual problems
• Dialogue with the members through the ACP Newsletter as well as open dialogue
• Conduction of opinion polls – the ACP is the only organization in the chess world that develops and conducts the polls on the regular basis
• ACP Tour – the permanent up-to-date calculation of the player’s performance through the year
• Organization of the chess events – the ACP uses the most attractive and modern formats of the events in order to promote the game of chess.
• All members of the ACP have the right to be elected as well as to vote for the candidates of the ACP Board. The ACP Board coordinates all the activities of the ACP on a voluntary basis
• Members of the Board are in constant contact with each other using all possible means of communications. About 2–3 times a month there is a common gathering of the Board Members, when the issues are discussed live (over the conference call or, if possible, in person).
• The procedure of decision taking within the Board is the following: all crucial decisions go under the vote procedure. In most cases the decisions are taken with the majority of the votes; however, in the most important cases the 2/3 of the supportive votes are needed.
• The ACP Board is an international team of professionals united by the main aims of the organization: to protect the rights of all the actors in the chess society as well as to promote the game of chess worldwide.