ACP Development
As the first act of his presidency in December 2011 Emil Sutovsky outlined the basis of his programme, which will be centered around the fostering of the interest of chess professionals. There are four main guidelines:
- the development of a think tank for promoting professional chess;
- the renewal of the communication strategy of the ACP, with special attention being paid to the mainstream and new media;
- working with corporate sponsors based on the transparency and time-effective decision process of the ACP;
- the increase in membership and representativeness.
The contract has been already signed for the ACP Women Cup in Tbilisi (February 2012, with a prize fund of USD 40.000), and ACP is in the process of defining at least two major forthcoming chess events: the ACP Masters (with a minimum prize fund of USD 100.000, for which the ACP already has an agreement in principle) and an Internet ACP Championship. Negotiations are ongoing with the Turkish, Israeli, Azerbaijani and Ukrainian Chess Federations for staging ACP events as also with three top-100 companies for securing continuous funding to the ACP for expanding its activities. A restyling of the ACP website is in progress and new initiatives are announced as regards membership (joining the ACP between 1 January and 1 April 2012 shall be free of cost for one year) and publication of Position Papers.
In less than one month of work, the new Board succeeded in passing from the previous 259 members from 46 countries (as of 21.12.2011) to 744 members from 72 countries and the number is ever growing.
As a result of this enhanced representativeness, on 20 January 2012 FIDE and ACP issued a joint press release announcing major cooperation between the two entities.
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