page_title: Association of Chess Professionals
section_title: ACP Board
hierarchical_section_title: Association of Chess Professionals / ACP Board
caption_attribution_description: English: GM Iván Salgado López, European Chess Team Championship Warsaw 2013
context_page_description: The Association of Chess Professionals is a non-profit organisation which aims to protect the rights of professional chess players, address their concerns and to promote chess worldwide through the organisation of high level chess tournaments and maintaining a ranking system of the top professionals.
  Besides these activities, the ACP encourages and promotes the civil engagement of chess players into the decision-making processes of FIDE, the world chess body. This was particularly evident with the formation of the joint ACP-FIDE panel Anti Cheating Committee.
  In 2014 the ACP announced the initiation of the Veteran's Programme along with FIDE, which seeks to provide a stipend to a few deserving veteran players who could benefit from such support. – since then 18 veterans were awarded with an annual stipend.
  At the summer of 2015 the ACP united about 1100 chess professionals from 85 countries. While the World Champion Magnus Carlsen is a notable exception, most of the World's top players, including the previous World Champion Vishwanathan Anand can be found among the ACP members.
context_section_description: It consists of ACP President Aleksandar Colovic, ACP Board Director and Deputy President Yuri Garrett, ACP General Secretary Beatriz Marinello, ACP Treasurer Laurent Freyd, ACP Tour Director Pavel Tregubov and Board Members Jesús García Valer, Aleksandra Dimitrijevic, Gunnar Bjornsson, Iván Salgado López, Sergei Beshukov and Maria Emelianova.
  The ACP Board coordinates all activities of the ACP. The main activities are the following:
  Organization of the high-level chess events
  Consultations of the ACP members on the topical issues
  Veteran's support and anti-cheating programs
  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 on internet
  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 throughout the year, with the winners receiving wild cards to the most prestigious tournaments worldwide
  The ACP Board is an international team of [chess] 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. 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 once a month there is a common gathering of the Board Members, when the issues are discussed live (over a conference call or, if possible, in person).
  For decision-making within the Board, all proposals are voted upon by each member. For most decisions a majority is sufficient, but the most critical ones require the support of 2/3rd of the Board.
caption: Iván Salgado López (2013)
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